Mindful Leadership For Dummies
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Adams Juliet. Mindful Leadership For Dummies
Introduction
About This Book
Foolish Assumptions
Icons Used in This Book
Beyond the Book
Where to Go from Here
Part 1. Breaking the Mould
Chapter 1. Exploring Mindful Leadership
Establishing the Facts about Mindfulness and Leadership
Exploring the Benefits of Mindful Leadership
Deconstructing Mindfulness
Exploring the Evolution of Mindfulness
Chapter 2. Discovering Why Mindfulness Matters to Leaders
Leadership Challenges of the Modern Workplace
Identifying Sources of Pressure
Mindful Ways to Improve Your Leadership
Mindfully Reducing Leadership Stress
Understanding that Mindfulness Is Not a Panacea for All Ills
Chapter 3. Harnessing the Neuroscience of Mindful Leadership
Grasping the Potential and Limitations of the Executive Brain
Recognising Your Hidden Drivers
Establishing How Mindfulness Works
Part 2. Learning from Mindful Leaders
Chapter 4. Case Study 1: Andrew Stone, Baron Stone of Blackheath
The Impact of Mindfulness on Andrew’s Work
Andrew’s Mindfulness Experience and Practice
Andrew’s Hints and Tips
Leadership Insights
Chapter 5. Case study 2: Tim Neild, Royal Navy Commander
The Impact of Mindfulness on Tim’s Work
Mindfulness Experience and Practice
Tim’s Hints and Tips for Leaders
Leadership Insights
Chapter 6. Case Study 3: Marion Furr, Director of MBPA
The Impact of Mindfulness on Marion’s Work
Marion’s Mindfulness Experience and Practice
Marion’s Top Tips for Leaders
Leadership Insights
Part 3. Developing Mindfulness
Chapter 7. Setting the Stage for Transformation
Understanding Self-Authoring
Developing the Tools for Self-Authoring
Taking Your First Step Towards Mindful Leadership
Chapter 8. Week 1: Focusing Your Attention
Mindfulness or Mindlessness: Discovering the Difference
Tuning in to the Present Moment
Focusing Your Attention
Week 1 WorkplaceMT Practice Exercises
Chapter 9. Week 2: Observing the Mind-Body Connection
Exploring the Impact of Work on Your Body
Exploring Mind-Body Science
Tuning in to Your Body
Scanning Your Body
Managing Expectations
Week 2 WorkplaceMT Practice Exercises
Chapter 10. Week 3: Minding the Gap
Working Smarter, Not Harder
Minding the Gap
Noticing Patterns of Thought
Applying Kindness to Your Work
Adopting an Approach Mode of Mind
Taking Stock of Your Progress
Stretching without Striving
Mindfulness of Breath and Body
The Three-Step Breathing Space
Week 3 WorkplaceMT Practice Exercises
Chapter 11. Week 4: Recognising That Thoughts Are Not Facts
Observing the Guessing Game
Reducing Mental Pain
Identifying Sounds and Thoughts
Living with Frustration
Mastering the Three-Step Breathing Space
Week 4 WorkplaceMT Practice Exercises
Chapter 12. Week 5: Turning Towards Difficulties
Facing Up to Difficulties
Picking Your Battles Wisely
Using the Breathing Space to Deal with Daily Challenges
Week 5 WorkplaceMT Practice Exercises
Chapter 13. Week 6: Developing Intention
Accepting Your True Self
Knowing When It’s Time to Do Things Differently
Balancing Your Life and Work
Managing Yourself for Resilience
Cultivating Kindness
Setting an Intent to Make Mindfulness Part of Each Day
Week 6 WorkplaceMT Practice Exercises
Part 4. Applying Mindful Leadership
Chapter 14. Enhancing Your Personal Presence and Influence
Establishing Your Personal Brand
Harnessing the Power of Influence
Becoming a 3-D Negotiator
Chapter 15. Leading in a Digital Age
Defining Digital Leadership
Exploring the Impact of Leading in a Digital Age
Coping with the Demands of Digital Leadership
Working More Effectively in a Digital Age
Chapter 16. Leading in Times of Change
Understanding Change from Your Brain’s Perspective
Leading When Change Is the Norm
Exploring Models of Change Leadership
Practicing Mindful Strategies for Leading Change
Part 5. Becoming a Mindful Organisation
Chapter 17. Introducing Mindfulness to Your Organisation
Starting with the Outcome in Mind
Developing Mindful Individuals in Your Organisation
Making Your Organisation More Mindful
Getting Down to Practicalities
Practical Considerations
Chapter 18. Integrating Mindfulness into Everyday Work Practices
Managing Yourself Better
Mindful Meetings
Mindful Decision-Making
Mindful Project Management
Part 6. The Part of Tens
Chapter 19. Ten Mindful Ways to Make Better Decisions
Becoming Aware of Heuristics
Avoiding Overconfidence
Remembering That You Are a Social Animal
Avoiding Linking Things That Aren’t Connected
Becoming Conscious of Your Unconscious
Making Fearless Decisions
Improving Your Working Memory Capacity
Avoiding Sunk Cost Bias
Approaching Decisions with an Open Mind
Managing Your Emotions by Tuning in to Your Body
Chapter 20. Ten Mindful Ways to Reduce the Risk of Burnout
Identifying the Symptoms of Burnout
Recognising the Causes of Burnout
Avoiding Work Mismatching
Making Work More Rewarding
Increasing Your Self-Efficacy
Identifying the Essentials You Need from Your Work
Encouraging Creativity
Taking Good Care of Yourself
Getting Support
Taking Time Out to Appreciate the Good
Chapter 21. Ten Ways to Improve Your Attention with Mindfulness
Noticing When Your Mind Wanders
Focusing on Breath
Focusing on Your Body
Focusing on Sounds
Using Your Body as an Early Warning System
Avoiding Falling into the Zone of Delusion
Minding the Gap
Enjoying Mindful Coffee and Chocolate
Engaging in Mindful Walking
Doing the Three-Step Body Check
Chapter 22 (More Than) Ten Sources of Info on Mindful Leadership
The Academy of Brain-Based Leadership
Institute for Mindful Leadership
Time to Think
The Mindful Globe
Mindfulnet.org
A Head for Work
Dr Rick Hanson
Daniel Goleman
Mindful Work
Mindfulness in Organizations
Resonant Leadership
Neuroscience for Leadership
The Mindful Brain
Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World
About the Author
Authors’ Acknowledgments
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Mindfulness is a mental discipline that has been practiced for thousands of years. Modern science has researched the impacts of mindfulness on health and well-being over the last 40 years. In recent years, researchers have turned their attention to exploring the benefits of applying mindfulness to the way people work.
Nowadays, hundreds of corporate organisations, from Google to General Mills, from Dow Chemicals to the UK Parliament, use mindfulness to help their employees boost their resilience, productivity, emotional intelligence, focus and well-being. Leading business schools now recognise that mindfulness provides the foundation for effective leadership and routinely offer mindfulness training to MBA students and those in search of new approaches to the challenges of the modern-day workplace.
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This book provides you with the information and guidance you need to make up your own mind and decide how mindfulness can help you become a better leader. We encourage you to read with an open mind and a sense of exploration. In the spirit of mindfulness, suspend judgment as you read and experiment with some of the concepts and techniques described in these pages, and then take from it what works best for you.
When writing this book, we have made a number of assumptions about you, the reader:
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