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Tough at the Top: Why leaders need resilience
The key to resilient leadership is not in avoiding the stress that comes with the role so much as in taking steps to manage the effect, for the benefit of both the leader and those below. Anna Wildman looks at why leaders need to develop resilience and 4 critical actions they can take. |
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Making the Mindful Leader
How to lead people to effectively adapt in the face of great change? How do leaders manage themselves and the stressors inherent in the tasks they face and the challenges of their responsibilities? Leaders need new tools to do their jobs more effectively. Michael Chaskalson and Jeremy Hunter's chapter in the forthcoming Wiley Handbook of Occupational and Industrial Psychology. |
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In his book A Mindful Nation, US Congressman Tim Ryan explains why it is important for him to promote mindfulness.
“We’ve got a responsibility when we get sworn in as a member of Congress to try to help our constituents, and to help our country, and to know and to have personal experience of programs that are actually going to transform our country at a very fundamental level..... these programs have a profound effect on people who are working in very high levels of stress burnout in their jobs – if they’re nurses, or firefighters, or police officers - and this is able to reduce their stress, and improve their performance." |
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Using mindfulness to reduce burnout by physicians
Training in mindfulness meditation and communication can alleviate the psychological distress and burnout experienced by many physicians and can improve their well-being. |
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BBC 2 Horizon July 2013. The Truth About Personality. Can we change the way we think?
Michael Mosley explores the latest science about how our personalities are created - and whether they can be changed. Despite appearances, Mosley is a pessimist who constantly frets about the future. He wants to worry less and become more of an optimist. He tries out two techniques to change this aspect of his personality - including mindfulness - with surprising results. |
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Stress and the City: Has the Banking World Gone Soft? London Evening Standard 18 October 2013
Joshi Hermann explores the impact of the recent resignations of senior city figures and the support being provided by top firms. |
Stress and the City
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