Mindfulness (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

✍ Scribed by Harvard Business Review

• Publisher: Harvard Business School Pr
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 2256
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The benefits of mindfulness include better performance, heightened creativity, deeper self-awareness, and increased charismanot to mention greater peace of mind.

This book gives you practical steps for building a sense of presence into your daily work routine. It also explains the science behind mindfulness and why it works and gives clear-eyed warnings about the pitfalls of the fad.

This volume includes the work of:

Daniel Goleman

Ellen Langer

Susan David

Christina Congleton

This collection of articles includes Mindfulness in the Age of Complexity, an interview with Ellen Langer by Alison Beard; Mindfulness Can Literally Change Your Brain, by Christina Congleton, Britta K. Hölzel, and Sara W. Lazar; How to Practice Mindfulness Throughout Your Work Day, by Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter; Resilience for the Rest of Us, by Daniel Goleman; Emotional Agility: How Effective Leaders Manage Their Thoughts and Feelings, by Susan David and Christina Congleton; Dont Let Power Corrupt You, by Dacher Keltner; Mindfulness for People Who Are Too Busy to Meditate, by Maria Gonzalez; Is Something Lost When We Use Mindfulness as a Productivity Tool? by Charlotte Lieberman; and There Are Risks to Mindfulness at Work, by David Brendel.

How to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Mindfulness
Contents
Ch 1: Mindfulness in the Age of Complexity
Ch 2: Mindfulness Can Literally Change Your Brain
Ch 3: How to Practice Mindfulness Throughout Your Work Day
Ch 4: Resilience for the Rest of Us
Ch 5: Emotional Agility
Ch 6: Don't Let Power Corrupt You
Ch 7: Mindfulness for People Who Are Too Busy to Meditate
Ch 8: Is Something Lost When We Use Mindfulness as a Productivity Tool
Ch 9: There Are Risks to Mindfulness at Work
Index
Resilience
Contents
Ch 1: How Resilience Works
Ch 2: Resilience for the Rest of Us
Ch 3: How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience
Ch 4: Find the Coaching in Criticism
Ch 5: Firing Back
Ch 6: Resilience is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure
Index
Influence and Persuasion
Contents
Ch 1: Understand the Four Components of Influence
Ch 2: Harnessing the Science of Persuasion
Ch 3: Three Things Managers Should Be Doing Every Day
Ch 4: Learning Charisma
Ch 5: To Win People Over, Speak to Their Wants and Needs
Ch 6: Storytelling That Moves People
Ch 7: The Surprising Persuasiveness of a Sticky Note
Ch 8: When to Sell with Facts and Figures, and When to Appeal to Emotions
Index
Happiness
Contents
Ch 1: Happiness Isn’t the Absence of Negative Feelings
Ch 2: Being Happy at Work Matters
Ch 3: The Science Behind the Smile
Ch 4: The Power of Small Wins
Ch 5: Creating Sustainable Performance
Ch 6: The Research We’ve Ignored About Happiness at Work
Ch 7: The Happiness Backlash
Index
Authentic Leadership
Contents
Ch 1: Discovering Your Authentic Leadership
Ch 2: The Authenticity Paradox
Ch 3: What Bosses Gain by Being Vulnerable
Ch 4: Practice Tough Empathy
Ch 5: Cracking the Code That Stalls People of Color
Ch 6: For a Corporate Apology to Work, the CEO Should Look Sad
Ch 7: Are Leaders Getting Too Emotional?
Index
Empathy
Contents
Ch 1: What Is Empathy?
Ch 2: Why Compassion Is a Better Managerial Tactic Than Toughness
Ch 3: What Great Listeners Actually Do
Ch 4: Empathy Is Key to a Great Meeting
Ch 5: It’s Harder to Empathize with People If You’ve Been in Their Shoes
Ch 6: Becoming Powerful Makes You Less Empathetic
Ch 7: A Process for Empathetic Product Design
Ch 8: How Facebook Uses Empathy to Keep User Data Safe
Ch 9: The Limits of Empathy
Ch 10: What the Dalai Lama Taught Daniel Goleman About Emotional Intelligence
Index
Dealing with Difficult People
Contents
Ch 1: To Resolve a Conflict, First Decide: Is It Hot or Cold?
Ch 2: Taking the Stress Out of Stressful Conversations
Ch 3: The Secret to Dealing with Difficult People: It's About You
Ch 4: How to Deal with a Mean Colleague
Ch 5: How to Deal with a Passive-Aggressive Colleague
Ch 6: How to Work with Someone Who's Always Stressed Out
Ch 7: How to Manage Someone Who Thinks Everything Is Urgent
Ch 8: Do You Hate Your Boss?
Index
Leadership Presence
Contents
Ch 1: Deconstructing Executive Presence
Ch 2: How New Managers Can Send the Right Leadership Signals
Ch 3: To Sound Like a Leader, Think About What You Say, and How and When You Say It
Ch 4: Connect, Then Lead
Ch 5: The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why
Ch 6: Too Much Charisma Can Make Leaders Look Less Effective
Index
Purpose, Meaning, and Passion
Contents
Ch 1: Finding Meaning at Work, Even When Your Job Is Dull
Ch 2: What to Do When Your Heart Isn't in Your Work Anymore
Ch 3: You Don't Find Your Purpose--You Build It
Ch 4: How to Find Meaning in a Job That Isn't Your True Calling
Ch 5: You're Never Done Finding Purpose at Work
Ch 6: From Purpose to Impact
Ch 7: Five Questions to Help Your Employees Find Their Inner Purpose
Ch 8: How to Make Work More Meaningful for Your Team
Ch 9: The Power of Small Wins
Ch 10: The Founder of TOMS on Reimagining the Company's Mission
Index
Confidence
Contents
Ch 1: How to Build Confidence
Ch 2: Overcome the Eight Barriers to Confidence
Ch 3: Everyone Suffers from Imposter Syndrome
Ch 4: Mental Preparation Secrets of Top Athletes
Ch 5: Learning a Little About Something Makes Us Overconfident
Ch 6: To Ace Your Job Interview, Get into Character and Rehearse
Ch 7: Six Ways to Look More Confident During a Presentation
Ch 8: You Don’t Just Need One Leadershop Voice—You Need Many
Ch 9: Cultivate a Culture of Confidence
Ch 10: Great Leaders Are Confident, Connected, Committed, and Courageous
Ch 11: Helping an Employee Overcome Their Self-Doubt
Ch 12: To Seem Confident, Women Have to Be Seen as Warm
Ch 13: Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
Ch 14: Less Confident People Are More Successful
Index
Mindful Listening
Contents
Ch 1: What Great Listeners Actually Do
Ch 2: What Gets in the Way of Listening
Ch 3: Listening to People
Ch 4: Three Ways Leaders Can Listen with More Empathy
Ch 5: If You Aspire to Be a Great Leader, Be Present
Ch 6: Become a Better Listener
Ch. 7: To Change Someone’s Mind, Stop Talking and Listen
Ch 8: Defusing an Emotionally Charged Conversation with a Colleague
Ch 9: The Power of Listening in Helping People
Ch 10: When You’re the Person Your Colleagues Always Vent To
Ch 11: Managing the Critical Voices Inside Your Head
Index
Focus
Contents
Ch 1: The Focused Leader
Ch 2: Break the Cycle of Stress and Distraction by Using Your Emotional Intelligence
Ch 3: To Improve Your Focus, Notice How You Lose It
Ch. 4: What to Do When You're Feeling Distracted at Work
Ch 5: How to Make Yourself Work When You Just Don't Want To
Ch 6: Productivity Tips for People Who Hate Productivity Tips
Ch 7: 5 Ways to Focus Your Energy During a Work Crunch
Ch 8: Your Team's Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem
Ch 9: How to Practice Mindfulness Throughout Your Work Day
Ch 10: Your Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus
Index
Self-Awareness
Contents
Ch 1: The First Component of Emotional Intelligence
Ch 2: What Self-Awareness Really Is (and How to Cultivate It)
Ch 3: Successful Leaders Know What Made Them Who They Are
Ch 4: Two Ways to Clarify Your Professional Passions
Ch 5: Emotional Agility
Ch 6: Why You Should Make Time for Self-Reflection (Even if You Hate Doing It)
Ch 7: You, By the Numbers
Ch 8: How Are You Perceived at Work? Here's an Exercise to Find Out
Ch 9: How to Solicit Negative Feedback When Your Manager Doesn't Want to Give It
Ch 10: Find the Coaching in Criticism
Ch 11: Shakespeare's Characters Show Us How Personal Growth Should Happen
Index
Power and Impact
Contents
Ch 1: Don't Let Power Corrupt You
Ch 2: What's Your Power Style?
Ch 3: How to Figure Out How Much Influence You Have at Work
Ch 4: Four Ways Leader Fritter Their Power Away
Ch 5: Make Your Team Feel Powerful
Ch 6: How to Use Your Superpower for Good
Ch 7: Feeling Powerful at Work Makes Us Feel Worse When We Get Home
Ch 8: How to Work with a Manipulative Person
Ch 9: Sex, Power and the Systems That Enable Men Like Harvey Weinstein
Ch 10: Use Your Everyday Privilege to Help Others
Ch 11: To Create Change, Leadership Is More Important Than Authority
Ch 12: How to Think About Building Your Legacy
Ch 13: How Humble Leadership Really Works
Index