Creating Mindful Leaders: How to Power Down, Power Up, and Power Forward
- 3h 56m
- Joe Burton
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2018
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.
About the Author
Joe Burton is the founder and CEO of Whil, the world's leading digital wellbeing platform helping employees to reduce stress, increase resilience and improve their performance. He’s an entrepreneur in the digital health space, former President of Headspace, and spent fifteen years as a global COO in public companies. Joe is an alumnus of Harvard Business School, a renowned keynote speaker, and regular contributor to Forbes, Business Insider and HuffPost.
In this Book
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Foreword, by Josh Bersin
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Introduction—Being a Leader is Amazing. And it Kinda Sucks
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What is Mindfulness and Why Should I Care?
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What's Stressing People Out?
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The $500 Billion Dollar Slow Leak
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Are You Increasing Your Resilience or Decreasing It?
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What Does “Performance” Mean to You?
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You versus Technology
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Invest Five Minutes a Day to save Your Life
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It's Not a Religion. It's a Lifestyle
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Reality Check—How Toxic is Your Work Culture?
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Sleepless Nights and the Walking Dead
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Look, a Squirrel! Distraction and the Growing Safety Crisis
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Turn Depressing Data into Healthy Employees
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Building Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Skills for Yourself
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Increasing Self-Awareness
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Improving Self-Regulation
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Boosting Motivation
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Getting Positive – Don't Call it a Comeback
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Building EQ Skills for Others—Sharing a Better You
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Applying EQ Skills at Home (Parenting)
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Do or Die—It's Called Practice for a Reason
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Endnotes
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