The Power of Professional Closeness by Govert van Sandwijk

When you're the decision-maker for your organization, the pressure can be enormous. You want to do right by the business and your team members, but it's easy to feel lost given the unceasing noise coming at you. Your team could provide the guidance and motivation you need to move forward, but that would require being vulnerable with them. Honestly, the thought of opening up like that makes you more uncomfortable than you're willing to admit. Govert van Sandwijk sees leaders across the globe struggling with this issue, and in The Power of Professional Closeness, he shows how to unite your organization around a sense of openness that starts with you. You'll learn how the different parts of our brain drive rational and emotional decision-making, then dive into the basic laws of influence that can be used to raise the collective intelligence of your team. Finally, Govert offers strategies you can use to create the type of close-knit workplace environment that empowers you, your team, and the organization to defragment, grow, and prosper.