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Mindful Leadership

216 pages

If you thought leading a team or organization meant simply creating and implementing a financial plan, delegating responsibility, and watching the bottom line, well, you're only partly right. True leadership comes from within, a place of deep calm and focus, that allows you to respond to any situation as it arises. In Mindful Leadership, you'll learn how to draw on those inner reserves through Mindfulness Meditation, a tool you can use to achieve focus and clarity, reduce stress, and develop the presence of mind to meet any number of challenges.

The book opens up a world of meditation exercises that can be done anywhere, anytime (no chanting or patchouli required!) and that are the gateway to improved judgment and decision making, improved time management, enhanced team effectiveness, greater productivity, and more on-the-job inspiration and innovation.

• Details the eight ways in which leaders can incorporate Mindfulness into every aspect of their lives
• Illustrates how meditation and business actually do mix
• Essential for anyone interested in anticipating and serving client needs
• The author coaches executives throughout North America and is quoted widely in the media

Offering essential skills for both life and work, Mindful Leadership shows how it's possible to successfully lead a team, an entire organization—or just yourself.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments   xi
Part One: Mindfulness
   1. Overview   3
   2. An Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation   13
   3. Mindfulness Techniques   34
   4. Five Hinderances that Impede Success   63
   5. Discovering Your Life Purpose   76
Part Two: Mindful Leadership
   6. Be Present   93
   7. Be Aware   107
   8. Be Calm   117
   9. Be Focused   127
   10. Be Clear   133
   11. Be Equanimous   142
   12. Be Positive   152
   13. Be Compassionate   164
   14. Be Impeccable   174
   15. Nine Ways Forward   184
Endnotes   189
Bibliography   193
Index   195
About the Author   199

About the author:
Maria Gonzalex, BCom, MBA is a 30 year buisness veteran as a corporate executive and entrepreneur who believes that mindfulness transformes lives and organizations, and that it has the potential to transform society.  She has been meditating regularly since 1991 and teaching mindfulness since 2002.  She applies mindfulness to all aspects of her life, both personally and professionally.  As founder and president of Argonauta Strategic Alliances Consulting Inc. , she ensures that mindfulness is indistinguishable from her business, whether negotiating complex strategic alliances, doing strategy consulting, or coaching business leaders, professionals, entire teams, or organizations in mindful leadership. 

Maria has taught strategy and organization developpment at McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Managment.  OVer the last two decades she has served on numerous boards and has been a member of the Corporate Advisory Board for the Harvard Medical School- MacArthur Foundation's study on depression and workplace performance.  Having served as a founding memeber and vice-chair of the Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Addictions and Mental Health, she knows the toll that stress can take on individuals, organizations, and society.

Mindful Leadership is Maria's second book.  She is the coauthor of the award-winning The MIndful Investor (Wiley, 2010.

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