Creating Mindful Leaders: How to Power Down, Power Up, and Power Forward - Hardcover

Burton, Joe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1119484782 ISBN 13: 9781119484783

Publisher: Wiley, 2018

Synopsis

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 this title

About the Author

JOE BURTON is the founder and CEO of Whil, the world’s leading digital wellbeing training platform helping employees to reduce stress, increase resilience and improve their performance. He is an entrepreneur in the digital health space, former President of Headspace, and spent fifteen years as a global COO in public companies. An alumnus of Harvard Business School, Joe is a renowned keynote speaker and contributor to Forbes, Business Insider, and HuffPost.

From the Back Cover

Mindfulness has become the holy grail for modern professionals yearning for the solution to overcome stress. Unfortunately, most executives are too stressed and overwhelmed to know where to start. Creating Mindful Leaders offers the antidote. Written by Joe Burton, a global COO turned successful tech entrepreneur, this stress-busting book shares profound insights and outlines the easy practices that are solidly based in neuroscience, brain training, and positive psychology.

Based on his company’s award-winning training system, Creating Mindful Leaders explores practices to improve every aspect of your life and career. The author shows how mindfulness training relates to the natural functioning of the brain: what you think about, you become. Filled with Burton’s keen wit, the book eschews the New Age, woo-woo approaches to mindfulness and emphasizes a modern attention training practice to create a competitive advantage for yourself and your company culture.

Stress is the enemy that impacts health, wellbeing and performance. It impacts relationships and teams. And that impacts entire company cultures. Creating Mindful Leaders provides a tried-and true approach for achieving greater health, happiness and success. With wisdom that is grounded in research and drawing on his personal experience, Burton shares how to reduce stress driven by ongoing change and negative thought patterns that center on worry, regret, and anxiety. By practicing the mindfulness and emotional intelligence techniques presented in the book, you can learn to thrive in the “age of disruption.” You can become the leader you aspire to be: happy, confident, committed, energized, connected, charismatic, lovable, intentional, compassionate, and purposeful.

From the Inside Flap

Mindfulness has become the holy grail for modern professionals yearning for the solution to overcome stress. Unfortunately, most executives are too stressed and overwhelmed to know where to start. Creating Mindful Leaders offers the antidote. Written by Joe Burton, a global COO turned successful tech entrepreneur, this stress-busting book shares profound insights and outlines the easy practices that are solidly based in neuroscience, brain training, and positive psychology.

Based on his company's award-winning training system, Creating Mindful Leaders explores practices to improve every aspect of your life and career. The author shows how mindfulness training relates to the natural functioning of the brain: what you think about, you become. Filled with Burton's keen wit, the book eschews the New Age, woo-woo approaches to mindfulness and emphasizes a modern attention training practice to create a competitive advantage for yourself and your company culture.

Stress is the enemy that impacts health, wellbeing and performance. It impacts relationships and teams. And that impacts entire company cultures. Creating Mindful Leaders provides a tried-and true approach for achieving greater health, happiness and success. With wisdom that is grounded in research and drawing on his personal experience, Burton shares how to reduce stress driven by ongoing change and negative thought patterns that center on worry, regret, and anxiety. By practicing the mindfulness and emotional intelligence techniques presented in the book, you can learn to thrive in the "age of disruption." You can become the leader you aspire to be: happy, confident, committed, energized, connected, charismatic, lovable, intentional, compassionate, and purposeful.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1119484782
• ISBN 13: 9781119484783
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272