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SPARK: Life Stories and Leadership
Video: Leigh Thompson on language, embracing failure and leadership frameworks
As part of Executive Education's ongoing SPARK lecture series, Leigh Thompson, J. Jay Gerber Professor of Dispute Resolutions and Organizations, shared how our life stories inform our leadership frameworks.
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The Language of our Stories
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Post-Traumatic Growth: Rising Like a Phoenix
- Embracing failure as opportunity for growth increases our capacity to take risks after a setback. Being open to these experiences helps us write the script for our resurgence.
The Language of our Stories
- The words we use to tell our stories provide insight into how we define ourselves as leaders. The emotion of those words, the areas we focus on and the ratio of positive to negative words show where we source our energy.