The Joy of Leadership : How Positive Psychology Can Maximize Your Impact (And Make You Happier) in a Challenging World.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: The Disaggregated World -- Chapter 1: The 10X Effect: Performance Multipliers to Achieve Lasting Success and Fulfillment -- The Origin of This Book at McKinsey and Harvard -- What This Book Is For and How It's Unique -- How This Book Is Organized -- Chapter 2: Giving Way to the New: The Boundaryless Twenty‐First‐Century Work Environment -- Fluidity of People -- Fluidity of Roles -- Fluidity of Information -- Chapter 3: Myths of Happiness and Leadership: Making the Case for SHARP -- MYTH: Good Leaders Focus on Eliminating or Overcoming Their Weaknesses -- MYTH: People Are Happiest and Most Productive When They Eliminate Stress from Their Lives -- MYTH: Peak Experiences Are Necessarily Rare, a Product of Special and Extraordinary Events -- MYTH: The Most Important Tools for a Good Leader Are Power and Control -- MYTH: The Key to Fulfillment Lies in Seeking and Finding the Meaning of Life -- MYTH: Achievement and Success Lead to Happiness and Fulfillment -- Becoming SHARP -- Part II: What 10X Leaders Do -- Chapter 4: Strengths: Making the Most of Your Gifts -- The Tragedy of the Damage Control Mind‐Set -- Passion Strengths and Performance Strengths: Discovering Your Peak Potential Zone -- The Mastery Experience: Building Self‐Confidence -- Leading with Strengths -- Connecting the Dots: A Note on Courage, Patience, and Serendipity -- Chapter 5: Health: Injecting Energy into Life and Work -- Managing Energy, Not Time -- On Depletion and Recovery: The Energy Creation Zone -- In the ECZ: Lessons from the Blue Zones -- The Replenishing Role of Positive Emotions -- Managing Team Energy: Setting the Tone, Setting the Pace -- Chapter 6: Absorption: Revealing the Extraordinary in the Ordinary through Mindful Engagement -- The Importance of Mindfulness -- Flow 101.

Tools for Mindfulness and Flow -- Leading with Mindfulness -- Chapter 7: Relationships: Forming Authentic and Positive Bonds -- Relationship Enablers: Authenticity and Positivity -- Recognition and Gratitude -- Responding to Success and Failure -- Chapter 8: Purpose: Meaning and Commitment Are the Path to Joyful Leadership -- Crafting Our Work -- Purpose as Meaning and Commitment -- Tools for Purposeful Living -- The Power of Story -- The Inspirational Leader: Animating Others with Purpose -- Chapter 9: The Balanced Approach: SHARP and Cascading Success -- SHARP: Real‐World Synergy -- SHARP: Not One Size Fits All -- Part III: How to Change-and Stay Changed -- Chapter 10: Obstacles-and Pathways-to Lasting Behavioral Change: Neuroplasticity and the Possibility of Joyful Transformation -- Controlling Mind‐Sets -- Neuroplasticity: New Pathways to Change -- What's Neuroplasticity? -- The Science of Brain‐Altering Behaviors -- Chapter 11: Creating New, Durable Pathways to Joyful Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Making SHARP Changes -- Unfreezing: Discovering and Experimenting with Alternative Thoughts and Behaviors -- Change: Picking and Leading with Your New Approaches to SHARP Living -- Refreezing: Rituals and Reminders for Strengthening New Pathways -- Reminders: Just Keep Doing It -- Chapter 12: Finale: The 10X Effect Revisited and Becoming the Sum Total of Who You Are -- Notes -- Index -- EULA.

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