People functioning at the highest level are what Tal Ben-Shahar and Angus Ridgway, authors of new title, The Joy of Leadership: How Positive Psychology Can Maximize Your Impact (and Make You Happier) in a Challenging World refer to as 10X Leaders and research on these leaders consistently brought up five major strengths.
In The Joy of Leadership, Ben-Shahar and Ridgway teach readers to become a 10X leader by focusing on these five areas in what they call ‘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
They explain how the 10X elixir of peak performance comes not from focusing on just one of these areas, but from learning to function naturally with all five aspects of SHARP on a daily basis.
Those who cultivate just one or two aspects are unlikely to succeed. If one of the five isn’t taken care of it affects the performance of the whole. But by focusing on all five areas, readers will not only be more likely to find what helps them most as leaders, they will also have the best chance of enjoying the synergy of performance multiplication.
The Joy of Leadership by Tal Ben-Shahar and Angus Ridgway is priced $28.00/ £22.99/ EUR 25.50 and will be available in hardcover and ebook
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About the authors:
TAL BEN-SHAHAR is the author of the international best sellers Happier and Being Happy, which have been translated into more than 25 languages. He also taught two of the most popular courses in Harvard University's history on “Positive Psychology” and "The Psychology of Leadership" with a total of over 1,400 students. He has consulted and lectured around the world to executives on topics including leadership, education, ethics, happiness, self-esteem, resilience, goal setting, and mindfulness.
ANGUS RIDGWAY’s interest in leadership came from his astonishment at the diversity of leadership profiles he saw in clients and colleagues during his 20 year career in management consulting. At McKinsey & Company, he both led the Strategy Practice in Europe, Middle East and Africa, overseeing the work of over 1,000 colleagues, as well the Firm’s Partner Leadership Development function globally, where he helped to design and implement intervention programmes to foster the development of leadership behaviors of 1500 fellow Firm Partners.
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