Creating Mindful Leaders
How to Power Down, Power Up, and Power Forward
Gebonden Engels 2018 9781119484783Samenvatting
Unleash your inner mindful leader
Mindfulness, emotional intelligence and resilience are the must have skills for modern leaders yet many professionals are too stressed to know where to start. Creating Mindful Leaders provides deep insights and easy practices based in neuroscience, brain training and positive psychology to help professionals thrive in the age of disruption.
Written by a global COO turned successful tech entrepreneur, the book provides a roadmap to greater health, happiness and performance. It speaks to every professional wanting to reduce stress, achieve greater success and enjoy life more.
Offers immediately actionable techniques for professionals at all skill levels
Provides relatable, real–world advice
Helps build resilience while changing your relationship to stress
Shares a roadmap for sustainable performance in the face of ongoing change
Creating Mindful Leaders provides an informed, humorous and expert peak into the sources of stress caused by the modern pace of living and offers practical, actionable tools and techniques as the antidote to manage stress, increase resilience, and improve your wellbeing, performance, relationships, sleep and physical health.
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Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
<p>Foreword<br />by Josh Bersin xi</p>
<p>Introduction: Being a Leader Is Amazing. And It Kinda Sucks xvii</p>
<p>Part I FOR YOU 1</p>
<p>Chapter 1 What Is Mindfulness and Why Should I Care? 3</p>
<p>Chapter 2 What s Stressing People Out? 25</p>
<p>Chapter 3 The $500 Billion Dollar Slow Leak 35</p>
<p>Chapter 4 Are You Increasing Your Resilience or Decreasing It? 47</p>
<p>Chapter 5 What Does Performance Mean to You? 55</p>
<p>Chapter 6 You Versus Technology 61</p>
<p>Chapter 7 Invest Five Minutes a Day to Save Your Life 63</p>
<p>Chapter 8 It s Not a Religion. It s a Lifestyle. 67</p>
<p>Part II FOR YOUR COMPANY 89</p>
<p>Chapter 9 Reality Check: How Toxic Is Your Work Culture? 91</p>
<p>Chapter 10 Sleepless Nights and the Walking Dead 99</p>
<p>Chapter 11 Look, A Squirrel! Distraction and the Growing Safety Crisis 109</p>
<p>Chapter 12 Turn Depressing Data Into Healthy Employees 119</p>
<p>Part III EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE (EQ) FOR EVERYONE 127</p>
<p>Chapter 13 Building Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Skills for Yourself 129</p>
<p>Chapter 14 Increasing Self–Awareness 143</p>
<p>Chapter 15 Improving Self–Regulation 155</p>
<p>Chapter 16 Boosting Motivation 167</p>
<p>Chapter 17 Getting Positive Don t Call it a Comeback 181</p>
<p>Chapter 18 Building EQ Skills for Others: Sharing a Better You 191</p>
<p>Chapter 19 Applying EQ Skills at Home (Parenting) 209</p>
<p>Chapter 20 Do or Die: It s Called Practice For a Reason 217</p>
<p>Free Whil Resources 221</p>
<p>About the Author 223</p>
<p>Endnotes 225</p>
<p>Index 241</p>
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan