FT Guide to Executive Health: Build Your Strengths, Manage Your Risks - Hardcover

Quick, James Campbell; Cooper, Prof Cary; Quick, Jonathan; Gavin, Joanne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0273654284 ISBN 13: 9780273654285

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2002

Synopsis

Increasingly, business people are waking up to the fact that prolonged stress can be extremely damaging  - but they just don't know what to do about it.  If stress is not tackled, mental and physical health suffer and people become less productive, less effective and more destructive - as well as ill.

This book is the health and lifestyle coach for the intelligent business person.  It takes a positive approach to managing your own health and across all areas: physical, psychological, spiritual and ethical.  High-profile case studies - of business and political figures from past and present - highlight the issues.

Health is your greatest asset and you should manage it as you would any other valuable commodity.  The FT Guide to Executive Health helps you to build on strengths, identify weaknesses and develop strategies to combat risk.

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Review

"On reading The FT Guide to Executive Health, it immediately struck me as an original, practical, and best of all, useful contribution to management. It contains the sort of knowledge and advice which, years later, you realise should have been offered to you at Business School – but wasn’t."

- Sir Terry Leahy, CEO, Tesco

"A must read from the world's experts on executive health. In today's complex world the executive's health has become one of the company'sgreatest assets and a real potential liability. This practical guide navigates through the personal and professional landmines of corporate life."

- Bob Rosen, PhD, CEO, Healthy Companies International, author of Global Literacies, Leading People, and The Healthy Company, and one of the world's experts on global leadership.

"The government is committed to tackling the detrimental effects of long hours working and to promote the benefits of balancing work and life commitments. This Guide will help raise awareness of these issues amoung senior managers and go some way to ensuring that their employees benefit too."

- The Rt. Hon. Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, Member of Parliament, UK Government

"Having experienced many of the negative effects of executive stress (two heart attacks and a quadruple bypass at age 45) I found the topic of stress covered in a very insightful manner. I particularly enjoyed the discussion on stress reduction and the discussion of how to build greater executive health beyond just the physical dimension. Obviously this is a subject that is near and dear to the researchers, as well as to many of us in the executive 'trenches'."

- Lee Thurburn, MBA, BBA, former CEO of FlashNet Communications, Inc.

"Amid the thrill and trill of business today, it seems we have learned to ignore or forget the warnings that stress is deadly...quick-fix strategies simply are not sufficient." - Fast Company

"...filled with insight into an undervalued area of executive life...The book does a remarkable job of acting as a self-help guide for today's busy managers and executives."

-Academy of Management Executive

 

About the Author

James Quick MD is Professor of Organizational Behaviour, University of Texas, and the official spokesperson of the American Psychological Association on stress and workplace health issues.  He has appeared on ABC World News and is frequently quoted in the media.  Cary Cooper is BUPA Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health, and Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST).  He is widely regarded as the UK's leading authority on workplace health and stress.  Jonathan Quick MD is a Programme Director at the World Health Organization, based in Geneva.  Joanne Gavin received her PhD in organizational behaviour at the University of Texas, and has an MBA from the University of New Orleans.

About this edition

• Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0273654284
• ISBN 13: 9780273654285
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224