Creating Mindful Leaders

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.

Acknowledgments ix Foreword, by Josh Bersin xi Introduction: Being a Leader Is Amazing. And It Kinda Sucks xvii Part I For You 1 Chapter 1 What Is Mindfulness and Why Should I Care? 3 Chapter 2 What’s Stressing People Out? 25 Chapter 3 The $500 Billion Dollar Slow Leak 35 Chapter 4 Are You Increasing Your Resilience or Decreasing It? 47 Chapter 5 What Does “Performance” Mean to You? 55 Chapter 6 You Versus Technology 61 Chapter 7 Invest Five Minutes a Day to Save Your Life 63 Chapter 8 It’s Not a Religion. It’s a Lifestyle. 67 Part II For Your Company 89 Chapter 9 Reality Check: How Toxic Is Your Work Culture? 91 Chapter 10 Sleepless Nights and the Walking Dead 99 Chapter 11 Look, A Squirrel! Distraction and the Growing Safety Crisis 109 Chapter 12 Turn Depressing Data Into Healthy Employees 119 Part III Emotional Intelligence (EQ) for Everyone 127 Chapter 13 Building Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Skills for Yourself 129 Chapter 14 Increasing Self-Awareness 143 Chapter 15 Improving Self-Regulation 155 Chapter 16 Boosting Motivation 167 Chapter 17 Getting Positive – Don’t Call it a Comeback 181 Chapter 18 Building EQ Skills for Others: Sharing a Better You 191 Chapter 19 Applying EQ Skills at Home (Parenting) 209 Chapter 20 Do or Die: It’s Called Practice For a Reason 217 Free Whil Resources 221 About the Author 223 Endnotes 225 Index 241