The Joy of Leadership

TAL BEN-SHAHAR, PHD, is a speaker and author of the international best sellers Happier and Choose the Life You Want. Co-Founder and Chief Learning Officer at Potentialife, a leadership development organization, he consults and lectures to executives in multi-national corporations, the general public, and at-risk populations. His classes at Harvard University on Positive Psychology and the Psychology of Leadership were among the most sought after in the university's history.

The difference between flourishing and floundering is 10X. The difference between quantity and quality is a factor of 10. The difference in levels of engagement is exponential. People functioning at the highest level are what the authors call 10x leaders. Research on these leaders consistently brought up five major strengths. This book teaches readers to become a 10x leader using these five key areas, the SHARP framework.
 
* Strengths: 10X leaders stop trying to eliminate weaknesses and learn to focus on their strengths
 
* Health: 10X leaders stop trying to eliminate stress and learn how to integrate periods of restoration
 
* Absorption: 10X leaders stop waiting for the lightning of focus and creativity to strike and learn how to achieve consistent engagement and presence
 
* Relationships: 10X leaders stop trying to exert power and control and learn to cultivate healthy relationships through positivity and authenticity
 
* Purpose: 10X leaders stop grinding out tasks and learn how to find meaning and commitment in everything they do
 
The 10X elixir of peak performance comes not from focusing on just one of these areas, but from learning to light the fire of all five aspects of SHARP and functioning naturally with them on a daily basis. If you just cultivate one or two aspects of leadership skills you are unlikely to succeed. If one of the five isn't taken care of it affects the performance of the whole. But if you focus on all five areas, you will not only be more likely to find what helps you most, you have the best chance of enjoying the synergy of performance multiplication.

PART ONE: THE DISAGGREGATED WORLD
 
1. The 10X Effect
 
2. Giving Way to the New
 
The Boundaryless 21st-Century Work Environment
 
3. Myths of Happiness and Leadership: Making the Case for SHARP
 
What it Means--and Doesn't Mean--to be Successful and Fulfilled
 
PART TWO: WHAT 10X LEADERS DO
 
4. Strengths
 
Making the Most of Your Gifts
 
5. Health
 
Injecting Energy into Life and Work
 
6. Absorption
 
Revealing the Extraordinary in the Ordinary through Mindful Engagement
 
7. Relationships
 
Forming Authentic and Positive Bonds
 
8. Purpose
 
Meaning and Commitment: the Path to Joyful Leadership
 
9. The Balanced Approach: SHARP and Cascading Success
 
PART THREE: HOW TO CHANGE--AND STAY CHANGED
 
10. Obstacles--and Pathways--to Lasting Behavioral Change
 
Neuroplasticity and the Possibility of Joyful Transformation
 
11. Creating New, Durable Pathways
 
Tools and Tactics for Making SHARP Changes
 
12. Finale: The 10X Effect Revisited
 
Becoming "The Sum Total of Who You Are"

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