Books by Rasmus Hougaard

Managing Your Anxiety (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

by Judson Brewer, Harvard Business Review, Alice Boyes, Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter

What's the worst that can happen?
Anxiety is the most prevalent mental disorder worldwide. But rumination, worry, and catastrophizing don't have to hold you back at work. By understanding how anxiety works, you can better manage these feelings.
This book will help you distinguish stress from anxiety, use self-compassion and mindfulness to combat the symptoms, find the support you need, and move forward more comfortably and confidently in your job.
This volume includes the work of: Alice Boyes Judson Brewer Rasmus Hougaard Jacqueline Carter

How to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

Focus (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

by Daniel Goleman, Harvard Business Review, Rasmus Hougaard, Heidi Grant, Amy Jen Su, Maura Nevel Thomas

The importance of achieving focus goes well beyond your own productivity.
Deep focus allows you to lead others successfully, find clarity amid uncertainty, and heighten your sense of professional fulfillment.
Yet the forces that challenge sustained focus range from dinging phones to office politics to life's everyday worries. This book explains how to strengthen your ability to focus, manage your team's attention, and break the cycle of distraction.
This volume includes the work of: Daniel Goleman Heidi Grant Amy Jen Su Rasmus Hougaard
HOW TO BE HUMAN AT WORK.
The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

Compassionate Leadership How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way

by Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter

Leadership
is hard. How can you balance compassion for your people with effectiveness in
getting the job done?

A global pandemic, economic
volatility, natural disasters, civil and political unrest. From New York to
Barcelona to Hong Kong, it can feel as if the world as we know it is coming
apart. Through it all, our human spirit is being tested. Now more than ever,
it's imperative for leaders to demonstrate compassion.

But in
hard times like these, leaders need to make hard decisions--deliver
negative feedback, make difficult choices that disappoint people, and in some
cases lay people off. How do you do the hard things that come with the
responsibility of leadership while remaining a good human being and bringing
out the best in others? Most people think we have to make a binary choice
between being a good human being and being a tough, effective leader. But this
is a false dichotomy. Being human and doing what needs to be done are not
mutually exclusive. In truth, doing hard things and making difficult decisions
is often the most compassionate thing to do.

As founder and
CEO of Potential Project, Rasmus Hougaard and his longtime coauthor, Jacqueline
Carter, show in this powerful, practical book, you must always balance caring for
your people with leadership wisdom and effectiveness. Using data from thousands
of leaders, employees, and companies in nearly a hundred countries, the authors
find that when leaders bring the right balance of compassion and wisdom to the
job, they foster much higher levels of employee engagement, performance,
loyalty, and well-being in their people.

With rich examples
from Netflix, IKEA, Unilever, and many other global companies, as well as
practical tools and advice for leaders and managers at any level,
Compassionate Leadership is your indispensable guide to
doing the hard work of leadership in a human way.

More Human How the Power of AI Can Transform the Way You Lead

by Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter, Marissa Afton, Rob Stembridge

AI has the potential to transform leadership and business--or to lead us toward an automated and uninspiring work experience. Which will it be?

Humans have always been good at inventing tools that change the way we live and work, but not always good at adapting to those changes. The internet has given us instant access to gigabytes of data and yet has made us more distracted. Social media has enabled constant connection to our networks and yet it can also alienate or isolate us. What impact will the phenomenal growth of AI ultimately have on our life and work?

So far, that question has mostly prompted a wave of anxiety about the disappearance of jobs and the loss of humanity in our work lives. But as founder and managing partner of Potential Project Rasmus Hougaard and senior partner Jacqueline Carter show in this essential book, that's a very limited perspective, leaving out a crucial point: AI has the power to transform leadership for the better. The key is in how leaders use it.

The authors conducted in-depth interviews with more than a hundred CEOs and executives across a range of industries, met with top AI experts, and completed 360-degree surveys of scores of leaders and employees worldwide. They found that by thoughtfully delegating tasks to AI and using it to augment skills and behaviors, leaders can unlock a truly human experience of work while enhancing organizational performance.

The AI-augmented leader moves beyond a focus on the technology itself to constantly probe how it can strengthen the core qualities of human-centered leadership: awareness, wisdom, and compassion. In this way, AI can help leaders and organizations become more human.

With deep insight and rigorous research, More Human will help leaders navigate our AI-enabled future.