Matt Tenney, Tim Gard

The Mindfulness Edge (eBook, ePUB)

How to Rewire Your Brain for Leadership and Personal Excellence Without Adding to Your Schedule

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The one habit that can improve almost every leadership skill There is a simple practice that can improve nearly every component of leadership excellence and it doesn't require adding anything to your busy schedule. In The Mindfulness Edge, you'll discover how a subtle inner shift, called mindfulness, can transform things that you already do every day into opportunities to become a better leader. Author Matt Tenney has trained leaders around the world in the practice of mindfulness. In this book, he partners with neuroscientist Tim Gard, PhD, to offer step-by-step, practical guidance for quickly and seamlessly integrating mindfulness training into your daily life--rewiring your brain in ways that improve both the 'hard' and 'soft' skills of leadership. In this book, you'll learn how mindfulness training helps you: * Quickly improve business acumen and your impact on the bottom line * Become more innovative and attract/retain innovative team members * Develop the emotional intelligence essential for creating and sustaining a winning culture * Realize the extraordinary leadership presence that inspires greatness in others The authors make a compelling case for why mindfulness training may be the 'ultimate success habit.' In addition to helping you improve the most essential elements of highly effective leadership, mindfulness training can help you discover unconditional happiness and realize incredible meaning--professionally and personally.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119183242
• Artikelnr.: 44633745

Autorenporträt

MATT TENNEY works to develop highly effective leaders who achieve extraordinary, long-term business outcomes--and live more fulfilling lives--as a result of realizing high levels of self-mastery and more effectively serving and inspiring greatness in the people around them. He is an international keynote speaker, a corporate trainer, and the author of Serve to Be Great: Leadership Lessons from a Prison, a Monastery, and a Boardroom. He has been teaching mindfulness since 2002. Matt's clients include Wells Fargo, Marriott, Keller Williams, The Four Seasons, and many other companies, associations, and universities. TIM GARD, PhD, is a neuroscientist, keynote speaker, and mindfulness trainer. His research focuses on the neural and psychological mechanisms of mindfulness in a variety of contexts. Tim is affiliated with the Lazar lab for neuroscience of mindfulness research at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: A Note on Best Enjoying This Book

Introduction

Everything Begins in the Mind

You Can Rewire Your Brain for Leadership and Personal Excellence

What You'll Find In this Book

Part 1: How Mindfulness Training Rewires the Brain for Leadership Excellence

Chapter 1: The Shift that Changes Everything

Beginner's Mind

The Attitude of a Beginner is Essential

The Shift That Changes Everything

Changing Our Default

Review Questions

Chapter 2: Making an Immediate and Direct Impact on the Bottom Line

How We Unconsciously Affect Gross Margins and Expenses

Uncovering Our Cognitive Biases

The Illusion of Control Bias

The Status Quo Bias

Logic Bias

Reaction Time Bias

Mindful Self-Awareness and Better Decisions

Mental Agility

Quick Impact and Great Potential

Review Questions

Chapter 3: Organizational Climate Change

The Power of a Positive Emotional Climate

The Leader Drives the Emotions of the Team

The Emotionally Intelligent Leader

A More Emotionally-Intelligent Brain

A Training Regimen for Emotional Intelligence

A Human Approach

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Chapter 4: Fueling the Fire of Innovation

The Archetype of an Innovator

Resilience in the Face of Opposition

Patience

Empathy

Empathetic Design

Chapter 5: Developing Extraordinary Leadership Presence

Staying Cool Under Pressure

Fearlessness

The Most Important Aspect of Leadership Presence

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Chapter 6: Why Mindfulness Is the Ultimate Success Habit

Two Life-Changing Discoveries

The Power of Serving Others

Unconditional Happiness

The Study of Happiness

Happiness Is Good for Business

Happiness Is Predetermined, Kind Of (But You Can Change That)

The Ultimate Success Habit?

Review Questions

Part 2: Developing the Ultimate Success Habit

Chapter 7: The Perfection of the Present Moment

Beginning to Practice in Daily Life

The Brain Is A Habitual Machine

The First Step to Unconditional Happiness

A Win-Win-Win Paradigm Shift

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Chapter 8: The Power of Sitting Still

Seamlessly Integrating the Training Into Daily Life

A Beginner's Guide to Sitting Still in Mindfulness

An Intermediate-Level Guide to Sitting Still in Mindfulness

Spilling Over Into Activity

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Chapter 9: Four Hours to Four Minutes: Mastering Emotions for Optimal Performance

Mindfulness of Emotions

A Ride on the River of Emotions

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Chapter 10: The Wisdom of True Excellence

Things Aren't As They Seem

An Incredible Discovery

You're Not What You Think

Wisdom Vs. Knowledge

The Interplay Between Stable Awareness and Wisdom

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Chapter 11: Extraordinary Leadership Presence and the Final Piece of the Puzzle of Unconditional Happiness

Pain Is Inevitable, Suffering Is Optional

A Taste of Liberation

More Fully Enjoying What's Pleasant

That Darn Wisdom Again

The Root Cause of Suffering

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Chapter 12: Advanced-Level Training

The Best Movie Ever

Brutal, Compassionate Honesty

Investigation of

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"...this is a great read for any busy professional." (Ambition, June 2016)