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Staya Nadella contniues to link mindset and innovation at Microsoft

johnwp — Mon, 26 May 2025 23:55:50 +0000

Speaking tat he AiVerse Microsoft’s CEO talks about the link between growth mindset, empathy and innovation. Mindset cultures are built through sustained effort and. application. Microsoft are still on the journey and investing in mindset as a competitive advantage. Read the full article.

Culture, compassion, compute: Satya Nadella on what makes a generational company in the AI age

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World Economic Forum – Growth Mindset is vital in 2025

johnwp — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 07:29:00 +0000

The WEF 2025 conference in Davos has wrapped up. In reviewing the commentary we weren’t surprised to see Growth Mindset as a key priority for business and government. Here;s an extract form Davos

Adopting an adaptive mindset is key

Technology is advancing at such a pace, it’s not just a matter of employees and organizations reskilling for the AI age. It’s an almost continuous learning process. Sevak talks about the “half-life of a skill” and how it is rapidly decreasing. He says that a skill learnt now is worth half the value of one learnt six years ago.

“I think leaders should be prioritizing adaptability to new external realities,” Sevak says. “The marketplaces are shifting faster and there are more geopolitical questions being raised. What’s the role of China? What are the regulations coming out of Europe? What are the different governmental changes that are happening in key markets? There are the technology changes, political changes, and certainly all of the shifts in the skilling and human capital side are such that having that adaptive spirit – not being so fixed or having a fixed mindset, but more of a growth mindset, or an adaptive mindset – is going to be particularly critical this year.”

Keep adapting and looking forward is also the advice of David Steinbach, CIO at the global retail investment management company Hines.

“Good decision-making is top of the list. I think it’s going to be easy to fall back into some old habits and to forget some of the lessons that we’ve all learned. It’s going to be easy to fall into recency bias. And I think that that’s probably the single biggest thing that investors need to be thinking about this year is not to fall prey to those.”

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GMI launches in India with theWhitespaces

johnwp — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 04:31:59 +0000

GMI launches in India with Whitespaces

Growth Mindset Institute is excited to be launching in India with our partner the WhiteSpaces. Founded by Dr Anjan Bhowmick, Whitespaces is leveraging the transformative power of growth mindset to accelerate growth for businesses and professionals in the APAC region.

John Rives, Co-Founder of GMI, said “we are very proud to work with Whitespaces in India. They have shown a deep understanding of mindset science and demonstrated a commitment to applying it in their work with their clients.”

Whitespaces has been fully accredited to deliver GMI’s world leading programs and use our advanced mindset psychometric, the Mindset Profiler in collaboration with Professor Carol Dweck of Stanford University and other mindset researchers. They are launching the growth mindset offering on February 21^st with a strictly limited one-day workshop. Susan Mackie, a GMI Co-Founder and world-renowned mindset researcher, will chat with Anjan to kick off the session.

We have long aspired to enable people in the region to access our programs and Whitespaces is an ideal partner for us.

Good luck Anjan and the Whitespaces’ team!

About GMI

Growth Mindset Institute (GMI): Leading the Way in Mindset Measurement, Leadership Development and Behaviour Change

Growth Mindset Institute (GMI) is at the forefront of mindset assessment, program design and program delivery. Our core focus is leveraging growth mindset for leadership development, behaviour change and organizational culture. We continuously invest in research and development (R&D) to advance our knowledge in program design. Our innovative mindset assessment tool, the Mindset Profiler^TM, was developed in collaboration with Professor Carol Dweck of Stanford University and other leading mindset researchers. This ground-breaking tool has been utilized by over 200 companies and assessed more than 50,000 individuals worldwide.

About the Whitespaces

Whitespaces is India’s first talent and organisation development form. It helps maximize the impact of your people and organization using our client-centred, business-oriented outside-in approach. Our ground-breaking research and high impact, results-based guided learning solutions build human capability that delivers results that matter to your stakeholders. Its core practice verticals are :

Organization Transition Practice – Working with Organisations and Leaders with an outside-in perspective and the tools to add value and build human capability.
Outcome Based Learning Practice – Enabling leaders and teams to develop and coach people to increase their competence, ensure engagement, and discover meaning in their work.
Coach Practice – Creating pathways to connect and unleash individuals and teams to make an unexpected and sustainable positive impact on their companies, communities and societies at large.
Wellbeing Practice – An immersive learning experience blending innovative leadership approaches with insights drawn from the world of natural sciences.

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Microsoft CEO Nadella on Mindset

johnwp — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:18:22 +0000

Microsoft CEO Nadella encourages learning

He said that he encouraged his people to go from know-it-alls to learn-it-alls.

“It’s a destination you never reach because the day you say ‘I have a growth mindset’ means you don’t have a growth mindset by definition,” he said.

See the full article here:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/analyst-reworks-microsoft-stock-price-140700330.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIU2WyXN9cn4c3rpQS7Nz7dE3Q4TEeAClciqE3xDTwxNTST3HFcI6Iay7EJyiiyLBd2GzkHjGUjJVj1WK2ob6LE464ZlYm1_hIplvbi-xsa752Lor05AHYJnFdAsZqhphin7Q1Yw3b3AtR5xDYbnsfxdNfdHC1TgmFViJ2Nc0Hmj

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CPA Australia Article on Growth Mindset and Career Progress

johnwp — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 06:25:34 +0000

My Co Founder, Susan Mackie, recently spoke to CPA Australia about the importance of growth mindset in a career development. Having a grwoth mindset is about continuous learning and development. In an era where the half-life of a skill has reduced from 10 year to just 4 years and declining we all need to be constantly learning an reinventing ourselves.

“A fixed mindset is not ‘bad’, it is simply a lens we look through due to past experiences and to make sense of the world, and this could frame your future choices. The question then becomes ‘how do we enact a growth mindset when a fixed mindset is holding us back?’”

— Susan Mackie, Growth Mindset Institute

See the full article here:

https://intheblack.cpaaustralia.com.au/careers-and-workplace/growth-mindset-tips-elevate-career

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Growth Mindset – Helping Women Identify as Leaders

johnwp — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:21:39 +0000

Researchers at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business are interested in why Women are less likely to identify themselves as leaders in organisations and how to help close the gender gap im leadership. Why do women develop this view of their leadership skills?

Contributing factors to this challenge include lack of supervisor support, absence of role models, work-life conflicts, and gender biases. However, Lee Cunningham and Ashford’s research points to a more cognitive factor: women’s discomfort in adopting the leader label, influenced by fixed versus growth mindsets. Those with a fixed mindset perceive leadership capabilities as innate traits, while those with a growth mindset see them as evolving skills.

As discussed in Ashford’s recent book, The Power of Flexing, leadership comes with many challenges. The skills involved are new for emerging leaders, and the challenges only get more complex as leaders rise in the organizational ranks. Having a growth mindset in which setbacks are considered learning experiences rather than indictments of skill helps leaders to stay “in the game,” continually trying to be more of a leader and to both face and cope with those challenges. A growth mindset helps leaders (and all people) feel empowered when experiencing challenges and setbacks.

Read the full article here: https://www.newswise.com/articles/how-can-organizations-support-women-to-identify-as-leaders

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Forbes Magazine Article on Growth Mindset

johnwp — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 23:04:51 +0000

GMI read an interesting article in Forbes Magazine about the shift from a “family culture” to a growth culture. They suggest growth mindset as a core element of the growth culture. It involves open communication about goal and career aspirations, removing ego from the process and adaptability.

Find the article by following this link:

https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinesscouncil/2024/11/19/more-than-a-family-a-new-mindset-for-business-success/

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Microsoft CEO highlights growth mindset as an essential skill

johnwp — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 02:56:06 +0000

Satya Nedalla is a recent inteview with the Economist was asked which skills were crucial for Microsoft employees. Among the skills mentioned we AI, Cloud Computing and Growth Mindset.

See the original article here:

https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/news/satya-nadella-lists-must-have-skills-for-every-microsoft-employee/ar-BB1qh6Fn?ocid=wispr&apiversion=v2&noservercache=1&domshim=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1&batchservertelemetry=1&noservertelemetry=1

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Growth Mindset and the Future of Work

johnwp — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 02:57:01 +0000

Read the latest research and information about how fostering a growth mindset can help future of work programs succeed. Click here for article.

The research of Prof Carol Dweck (Stanford University) has demonstrated that a growth mindset is essential to a person’s learning and development.

In this article we explore how growth mindset interventions can accelerate and deepen upskilling programs in a future of work context.

In the past, the choice to upskill was one that people made as a normal part of their career path. One was not forced to change, but rather one elected to change. This process of self-selection ensured that most workers seeking a career change or wanting to upskill were prepared for the uncertainty and challenge ahead of them. Now, workers are being forced to change and this has created an entirely new type of challenge. How do we prepare a large labour force to have the psychological framework to undertake change willingly?

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Growth Mindset Parenting

johnwp — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 23:43:46 +0000

A Guide to Parenting with a Growth Mindset Approach

Prof. Carol Dweck’s work on mindsets provides a useful guide for helping parents to raise more adaptive and resilient children. Dweck has spent the past several decades conducting research identifying two distinct ways in which children view intelligence and learning. Children with a “fixed mindset” believe that their intelligence is simply an inborn trait—they have a certain amount, and that’s that. In contrast, individuals with a “growth mindset” believe that they can develop their intelligence over time (Blackwell, Trzesniewski, & Dweck, 2007; Dweck, 1999, 2007).

A child’s mindset influences how they perceive and respond to their world. In a growth mindset, children understand that challenges and failure framed as learning opportunities can help them to become smarter. Struggling and working on a challenge or setback is good for the brain’s neurological growth. Whereas in a fixed mindset children work to look smart, avoid challenges and shy away from taking risks where there is the possibility of failure. This can impact a child’s development at school, sport and their relationships.

Much of what we do as parents influences our child’s mindset.

Here are three practices you can start trying to assist your child with more of a growth mindset response.

Just have a growth mindset

Once we learn about growth mindset we assume we can simply tell our child to have a growth mindset and that’s it. As Dweck states “You don’t get a growth mindset by proclamation, it’s a journey.”

We are all a mixture of fixed and growth mindset. Let’s face it we all have times when we think we can improve and when we bounce forward after a setback. We also have days when the smallest setback knocks us over and we give up. Working to recognise when your child is having a fixed mindset response and help them name how they feel. When they are calmer, explore what strategies they have tried, how effective they are and what new strategies they could try.

As odd as it may seem, we need to think more about our fixed mindset in order to develop a more persistent growth mindset. Accepting our child’s fixed mindset moments and helping them to develop strategies for overcoming them is part of our role. This can take a long time to accomplish and we can be assured that we will have setbacks along the way. Remaining supportive and consistent over time is the key.

Talent Praise verses Effort Praise

When you give your child feedback about how smart or talented they are you send the message that your child has talent in some areas, but not in others. When they struggle to learn something, they view this as not having the talent and won’t ever be good at it. Talent praise also makes your child want to demonstrate their talent by doing things that they can do well and avoiding difficult or challenging tasks.

The alternative is to praise the effort and hard work that goes into learning and success. For example:

TALENT PRAISE

Well done you’re really smart.

Wow, you got an A.

You nailed it – you’re a natural.

EFFORT PRAISE

Well done, I noticed how much you practiced.

What did you find helped you to do so well?

Great, what did you find most difficult to learn?

Responding to Failure and Setbacks

Dweck and Haimovitz have found that the way parents respond to failure and setback is one of the most important factors in how children develop a fixed mindset response. Parents that downplay (“It’s okay, you can’t be good at everything”) or over react to a setback (“How did you such a simple mistake! What were you thinking?) sends the message that our child doesn’t have the natural ability to succeed.

Dweck points out that the better response for a parent is to focus on the learning and growth that comes from a setback. “Hey, I noticed that you didn’t do well in the game today. What do you think you need to work on to get better?” This sends the message that mistakes do not define ability and are not permanent. Life is full of challenges and setbacks and that if we aren’t making mistakes we aren’t learning or growing our brains.

As a parent are you failure-is-enhancing or failure-is-debilitating?

Research shows that parents with a failure-is-enhancing view believe that struggles are a helpful experience and are vital for facilitating learning and growth.

Parents with a failure-is-debilitating view believe that failure inhibits learning and is a roadblock on the pathway to improved performance. They worry about their child’s abilities and focus on their child’s performance rather than what they learned from the failure.

Mistakes are part of life and need to be accepted calmly.

Research has demonstrated that parent’s have a big influence on their children’s mindset. Most of the things we do and say as parents send either a fixed or growth mindset message to our children. Being mindful and developing these simple practices into your parenting will help your child to develop a stronger growth mindset over time.

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