Dan Cable
Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School
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Dan Cable
Biography
Dan Cable is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. Dan research has been cited over 37,000 times, he is on Stanford University’s list of the top 2% most impactful researchers, and The Academy of Management Perspectives ranked Dan in the “Top 25 most influential management scholars.” Dan’s research and teaching focus on organizational culture, activating positive emotions, and getting employees into commitment instead of just compliance. Dan is shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Talent Award, and The Academy of Management has twice honored Dan with “Best article” awards,
Dan’s newest book Exceptional helps people learn more about their best contribution and impact on others, so that they can unleash their potential. Alive at Work: The Neuroscience of Helping Your People Love What They Do helps leaders switch on the part of employees’ brains needed for innovation and resilience. He has edited two books and published more than 50 articles in top scientific journals (such as the Academy of Management Journal and Administrative Science Quarterly) and has been been featured in the Economist, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, New York Times, Sloan Management Review, and Business Week.
Dan’s recent clients include Amazon, BMW, Capital One, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, DHL, EY, Estee Lauder, Facebook, HSBC, Ikea, MetLife, NBC Universal, O2, Porsche Consulting, Prudential, PwC, Rabobank, Randstad, Roche, Rolls Royce, Siemens, and Twitter.
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The psychology of sustainable change
Learning is not failure -- but sometimes it can feel like it in the middle of the process. In fact, this is why so many personal and organizational change attempts fizzle out. We will reflect on the “chatter” that our brain use to “talk to us” during episodes of change, and the emotions we feel during this experience. As we talk about making change “the new normal”, we will cover three practical underlying principles of change as “make or break” investments: 1) the power of purpose, 2) learning mindset and investing in good pain, and 3) celebrating early wins. A key part of our discussion is the distinction between growth and achieving mindsets, and how achievement today using comfortable behaviors may lead to irrelevance tomorrow.
Confident vulnerability
How can you put your self-doubts to work for you? When leaders reveal their trip-ups and failures, they build a culture of psychological safety and are seen as more approachable. But being vulnerable isn’t easy. We will look at evidence-based approaches to showing vulnerability and building trust, without losing employees’ confidence. We’ll discuss the power of sharing some of your personal developmental journey, when you personally received constructive feedback that you needed to improve and adapt, which normalizes learning.
The Power of Purpose
We will discuss why purpose is important to humans, and why stories about purpose is so critical in inspiring employee commitment and resilience, particularly when change, innovation and creativity are necessary. Purpose also promotes health and well-being: when we feel a sense of purpose, our immune cells are more effective, leading to longer, better lives. We will discuss how leaders can help themselves and employees feel more purpose by enabling them to 1) play to their strengths and innovate at work, 2) balance urgent work with important work, and 3) personalize their stories about purpose in their work. I will introduce methods to expose the stories we are currently telling ourselves about the why off the work, and to think about other stories be more inspiring.
Neuroscience and Change
What does neuroscience tell us about creating sustainable change in our habits and our cultures? How can leaders trigger the helpful emotions of curiosity and excitement instead of anxiety and fear? We’ll discuss how our brains tells us that new activities are “not authentic” and what we can do about it. Finally, I can talk about how the brain “holds” its image of a self and we can activate our best selves more often.
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Featured Books
Exceptional: Build Your Personal Highlight Reel and Unlock Your Potential
by Dan Cable
"A bold new approach to improving your performance and deepening your purpose." —DANIEL H. PINK, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Drive, When, and To Sell Is Human
A Three-Step Process to Access and Activate Your Full Potential
Imagine switching on the television to see a highlight reel of the best moments from your life. Like a professional athlete, with every clip you'd learn how to repeat past successes, pinpoint positive blind spots, and build confidence in your skills.
In Exceptional, London Business School professor and expert social scientist Daniel M. Cable reveals how building your own personal highlight reel—a collection of positive memories about yourself from your network—is key to accessing your potential. Using the latest science and proven research behind best-self activation, his three-step process will help you improve your life by:
- Focusing on what you do best
- Crafting a life around your strengths
- Increasing your confidence and resilience
Cable has worked with tens of thousands of people to create their highlight reels and make the most of their gifts. The three-step process ultimately reveals how living up to your full potential can improve the relationships you value most and transform your mindset to one of possibility.
Each of us can bring forth a version of ourself that is uniquely outstanding. It's a version of ourself that already exists—all we have to do is access it.
- A practical book on how to create one's own human highlight reel, and then use that highlight reel to direct one to success, growth, happiness, and fulfillment in work and life based on scientific results
- Great for readers interested in achieving self-improvement and a sense of purpose.
- Add it to the shelf with books like Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges by Amy Cuddy, and The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg.
Alive at Work: The Neuroscience of Helping Your People Love What They Do
by Dan Cable
Poll after poll has confirmed that an astonishing number of workers are disengaged from their work. Why is this happening? And how can we fix the problem?
In this bold, enlightening book, social psychologist and professor Daniel M. Cable takes leaders into the minds of workers and reveals the surprising secret to restoring their zest for work.
Disengagement isn't a motivational problem, it's a biological one. Humans aren't built for routine and repetition. We're designed to crave exploration, experimentation, and learning--in fact, there's a part of our brains, which scientists have coined "the seeking system," that rewards us for taking part in these activities. But the way organizations are run prevents many of us from following our innate impulses. As a result, we shut down.
Things need to change. More than ever before, employee creativity and engagement are needed to win. Fortunately, it won't take an extensive overhaul of your organizational culture to get started. With small nudges, you can personally help people reach their fullest potential.
Alive at Work reveals:
- How to encourage people to bring their best selves to work and use their greatest strengths to help your organization flourish
- How to build creative environments that motivate people to share ideas, work smarter, and embrace change
- How to enhance people's connection to their work and your customers
- How to create personalized experiences that help people feel a deeper sense of purpose
Filled with fascinating stories from the author's extensive research, Alive at Work is the inspirational guide that you need to tap into the passion, creativity, and purpose fizzing beneath the surface of every person who falls under your leadership.
Change to Strange: Create a Great Organization by Building a Strange Workforce
by Dan Cable
To achieve sustained competitive advantage, you must create and deliver something that’s valuable, rare, and hard to imitate–and you can’t do that with a run-of-the-mill workforce. Your workforce needs to be strikingly different, obsessively focused on delivering on your unique value proposition. Compared with everyone else’s workforce, your people need to be downright strange!
This book is about everything it takes to build a workforce that’s strange and extraordinary enough to execute your most powerful strategies and your unique value proposition. It’s about understanding exactly how your workforce needs to be different...creating an end-to-end Strange Workforce Value Chain...implementing workforce systems that support your unique goals...establishing detailed metrics based on what makes you unique...using those metrics to drive clarity throughout your entire organization, and steer it toward success.
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