Mindfulness and the Art of Change by Choice: Radical Leadership For Managing Change - Softcover

Cox-Hynd, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784520969 ISBN 13: 9781784520960

Publisher: Panoma Press, 2017

Synopsis

Mindfulness changes your brain in 8 weeks. It's linked to increased employee job performance ratings. As a form of meta-awareness or self-observation, it affects reasoning and decision-making. It also increases readiness to take greater responsibility at work, and it helps people respond calmly rather than react defensively. The boost it gives to results can come as no surprise. Mindfulness has also been associated with a reduction in stress and anxiety. These are emotions that arise when you change management culture, working processes, structure and strategy. Such feelings can seriously hamper progress if not handled correctly. In this book Philip Cox-Hynd lays out his mindfulness-led methodology for smoothly managing change both in what is done (strategy and processes) and in how it's done (mindset and culture). He explains in detail how to display the kind of radical leadership that results in your colleagues driving change with the fervour of a hunter who has caught scent of the quarry and the astuteness that mindfulness brings. He uses case histories such as Pfizer where he was the lead change consultant on the Viagra project, helping to get Viagra to market nine months ahead of schedule. He also talks about Ella’s Kitchen, the baby and toddler food company. He reveals how he used a technique he calls "orchestrated disruption" to enable staff to own, drive and even seek accountability for the change-for-growth programme that led to the very successful sale of the company. This book is for CEOs and C-Suite Executives who want to manage change with the full and active support of their colleagues.

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Review:

"Philip took great care with engagement; the consequent changes set us up for continuing our company's exceptional growth" - Paul Lindley - founder and chairman of Ella's Kitchen

About the Author:

Born in Birmingham, into a Methodist household, Philip led a diverse life, from joining the Moonies cult at 16, briefly working in retail, to training then working as a professional actor for 10 years. He then switched from acting to facilitating, spending five years leading large personal development seminars to the public. This led to an invitation to take his brand of development into businesses in 1989, when he co-founded the change implementation consultancy Harley Young. Since then, Philip has striven to understand, via the many corporate change programs he designed and delivered, what makes change stick. Philip's work as a lecturer, coach and consultant has been greatly illuminated by his practice of Vipassana meditation, the Buddhist mind discipline that gave rise to Mindfulness, which Philip teaches as a key part of his work.

About this edition

• Publisher: Panoma Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1784520969
• ISBN 13: 9781784520960
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256