Mindful Leadership: The 9 Ways to Self-Awareness, Transforming Yourself, and Inspiring Others Hardcover - 2012 - 1st Edition

From the jacket flap

Meditation and Business Do Mix...Scented Candles Not Required

Effective leaders are self aware and empower those they influence to achieve their potential. Mindful Leadership is a guide to leadership that starts with the self--for business people, members of the public service, professionals, and anyone else in a position to influence others.

Maria Gonzalez shows you how to use a single tool--Mindfulness meditation--to achieve clarity, focus, and self-awareness, enabling you to transform yourself and achieve positive results by inspiring those you lead. In this book, you will learn how to use mindfulness to:

• Achieve greater concentration and productivity

• Reduce the stresses in your life and manage those that remain

• Become resilient and sustain high performance over the long term

• Anticipate and serve stakeholder needs, commu-nicate better, and increase team effectiveness

• Stay focused on what matters and remain level-headed about what you can't control

• Create calm and focus, see clearly under stressful conditions, and make better decisions

Mindfulness is a process of training the mind that anyone can follow, and Mindful Leadership provides simple techniques you can use anytime, anywhere, to improve yourself as a leader. Beginning with the simple act of being fully present, mindfulness opens up the 9 ways to become more effective in every aspect of life.