Finding the Space to Lead: A Practical Guide to Mindful Leadership - Brossura

Marturano, Janice

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ISBN 10: 1620402491 ISBN 13: 9781620402498

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Press, 2015

Riassunto

The complexity and relentless pace of our world places exceptional demands on leaders today. They work incredibly hard and yet feel that they are not meeting their own expectations of excellence. They feel disconnected from their own values and overburdened. By the thousands, they seek out books on leadership skills, time management, and "getting things done," but the techniques these volumes offer, useful as they are, often don't speak to the leader's fundamental sense that something is missing.

Janice Marturano, a senior executive with decades of experience in Fortune 500 corporations, explains how Mindful Leadership training integrates the practice of mindfulness--meditation and self-awareness--with the practical tools of management, enabling leaders to bring a wider range of their capacities to the challenges at hand. We already know from scientific research that mindfulness practices enhance mental health and improve clarity and focus. Finding the Space to Lead shows how this training has specific value for leaders.

This is not a new "leadership system" to add to the burden of already overworked people. It brings the concepts of mindfulness into the everyday life of anyone in a leadership role, through specific exercises that address practical issues--the calendar, schedule, phone usage, meetings, to-do list, and strategic planning, as well as interpersonal challenges such as listening and working with difficult colleagues.

Leaders who have experienced mindfulness training report that it provides a "transformative experience" with significant improvements in innovation, self-awareness, listening, and making better decisions. In Finding the Space to Lead, Marturano masterfully lays out her proven techniques for promoting mindfulness in the busy executive's working life.

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With leaders everywhere searching for ways to be mindful, Janice Marturano's timely new book, Finding the Space to Lead, is the definitive guide to becoming a mindful leader. If you follow her practical advice and easy-to-adopt exercises, this book will change your life.

(Bill George, Professor, Harvard Business School and former Chair and CEO of Medtronic)

Finding the Space to Lead gives us concrete strategies, from a high powered executive of a major American corporation, to increase our focus and creativity, as well as how to lead with compassion. In this practical and straightforward book, Janice Marturano shares her down to earth and common sense approach that can help moms and moguls alike. I highly recommend it. (Congressman Tim Ryan, Ohio, author of A MINDFUL NATION)

At the World Economic Forum, I saw in person how Janice Marturano's Mindful Leadership training could make a real difference in the lives of corporate leaders from around the globe. Her powerful new book, Finding the Space to Lead, makes the principles of this training accessible to readers everywhere. (Arianna Huffington, President and Editor-in-Chief, Huffington Post Media Group)

A must read for anyone in a leadership position. This is a riveting account of how mindfulness can transform leadership in organizations and improve individual well-being and organizational success. Sprinkled with compelling real-world examples, this book should be required reading for leaders of any organization. (Richard J. Davidson, Founder and Chair, Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Janice Marturano is a widely-admired executive and a leader in a movement that is changing the shape of our world through mindfulness and emotional intelligence. With this insightful book, leaders of all shapes and sizes will not only become much more effective in every way, they will also become happier. (Chade-Meng Tan, Google's Jolly Good Fellow and international bestselling author of SEARCH INSIDE YOURSELF)

Janice Marturano has been an inspiration to many of her friends at General Mills. Her new book, which explores the framework of mindful leadership, is an excellent read for anyone balancing the complexities of modern life and leadership. (Michael L. Davis, SVP, Human Resources, General Mills)

This book is both deeply moving and utterly inspiring. Whether you are already a leader, or preparing to lead, or perhaps you have had leadership 'thrust upon you,' reading this book and following its practices will become a lifeline, allowing you to discover a way to cultivate your deepest potential to lead with excellence and wisdom. (Professor Mark Williams, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Oxford)

I describe my first mindfulness retreat as life-changing and once again Janice has 'WOW'ed' me. Her clarity, encouragement and reminders to be gentle on ourselves as we learn to be mindful leaders are simply amazing. Finding the Space to Lead will benefit all who read and practice it. (Gale S. Pollock, Major General (Retired), CRNA, FACHE, FAAN)

This is a book filled with practical steps that can help businesses to succeed by cultivating the strengths of their most important resource--their employees. This book is a must read for business leaders who want to create a sustainable corporate environment grounded in shared communication and trust (Matt Mumber MD, author of SUSTAINABLE WELLNES: AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO TRANSFORM YOUR MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT)

Janice's personal story about discovering mindfulness, and ultimately defining how it applies to enhanced leadership, is inspiring. This is not some 'new age mindset' rhetoric . . . as someone who had no idea what mindfulness was, this has made me a better leader, father and husband by building the muscle of staying focused 'on demand.' (Joe Ens, Vice President, General Mills)

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Executives and leaders from all over North America, and at Davos, have sought out Janice Marturano's mindful leadership training. Finding the Space to Lead brings it to readers everywhere.

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• Editore: Bloomsbury Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1620402491
• ISBN 13: 9781620402498
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208