Leading Mindfully: How to Focus on What Matters, Influence for Good, and Enjoy Leadership More
- 3h 37m
- Amanda Sinclair
- Allen & Unwin
- 2016
A guide to cultivating everyday mindfulness for leaders seeking to make their organisations and workplaces productive, fulfilling and enjoyable places to be.
Simple practices of mindfulness can enhance our effectiveness and enjoyment in leadership work.
Leadership teacher and researcher Amanda Sinclair shows how mindfulness is helpful for all of us involved in the day-to-day of leadership, in those interactions in organisations, communities, schools and families where we are seeking to influence others towards positive outcomes.
Incorporating user-friendly summaries of the latest neuro-scientific and leadership research, Amanda invites us to experiment with twenty mindful practices. None of these activities take extra time or require us to withdraw to a mountain cave. They do help us find time for the people and purposes that matter most to us.
In a world where we regularly feel captured by a never ending 'To Do' list, expanding demands and depleted energies, Leading Mindfully provides a practical, simple and powerful path to leadership that is not only sustainable but full of delights and pleasures.
About the Author
Amanda Sinclair is an author and teacher in leadership, change, ethics and diversity. A Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Business School, she has written many articles and books on leadership including: Doing Leadership Differently and Leadership for the Disillusioned. She consults to organisations and senior management teams, coaches individuals and also teaches yoga and meditation.
In this Book
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Being as well as doing in Leadership
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Thinking Less
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Letting Awareness Arrive
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Giving Attention
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Reflecting on Identity with Less Ego
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Listening from Stillness
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Dialogue for Insight
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Connecting
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Being Mindful in Crises
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Transforming Writing
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Breathing Consciously
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Looking After Bodies
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Tuning into the Senses
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Finding Pleasure
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Opening to Creativity
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Feeling
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Being Ourselves?
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Clarifying Purpose, Going for Happiness
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Being Ethical
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Bringing Love and Compassion into Leadership
