The Joy of Leadership, Tal BenShahar, PhD
The Joy of Leadership, Tal BenShahar, PhD
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The Joy of Leadership
How Positive Psychology Can Maximize Your Impact (and Make You Happier) in a Challenging World

Author: Tal Ben-Shahar, PhD, Angus Ridgway

Narrator: Ramon De Ocampo

Unabridged: 7 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 03/30/2018

Synopsis

People functioning at the highest level are what the authors call 10x leaders. Research on these leaders consistently brought up five major strengths. This book teaches readers to become a 10x leader using these five key areas, 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

The 10X elixir of peak performance comes not from focusing on just one of these areas, but from learning to light the fire of all five aspects of SHARP and functioning naturally with them on a daily basis. If you just cultivate one or two aspects of leadership skills you are unlikely to succeed.

About Tal Ben-Shahar, PhD

Tal Ben-Shahar, PhD, has written eight books, including the New York Times bestseller Happier. He is cofounder of the Happiness Studies Academy and Potentialife. Ben-Shahar taught the largest course at Harvard, "Positive Psychology," and the third largest, "The Psychology of Leadership," attracting 1,400 students per semester-approximately twenty percent of all Harvard undergraduates. He obtained his BA and PhD from Harvard, and for the last twenty years has been teaching leadership, happiness, and mindfulness to audiences all over the world.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Feng

With the promise of a “10X” leader, a leader who is ten times more effective than the norm while keeping themselves and the team happy, this book advises on being effective and happy in workplaces for both workers and leaders. The central part of the book is part 2: the SHARP principles. In this par......more

Goodreads review by Patrice

J'ai absolument adoré "L'apprentissage du bonheur" de Tal Ben-Shahar. Cette expérience m'a donné envie de lire ce livre du même auteur. Et je suis un peu déçu. Les messages ont bien sûr beaucoup de sens mais sont moins inspirant que dans le premier livre. On ressasse des informations déjà présentées......more

Goodreads review by Amanda

When I first started listening to this on Hoopla, it seemed like any other leadership book that I had read, albeit with a heavy emphasis on the 10x leadership goals so I thought to myself, “This book is just one big commercial for their product, how disappointing.” However, I dutifully listened and......more

Goodreads review by Edwin

I greatly appreciated reading this book as its positive psychology techniques are highly pertinent to my current situation. The SHARP concept (Strengths, Health, Absorption, Relationships, and Purpose) presented in the book has been particularly valuable in helping me focus on my strengths, manage s......more

Goodreads review by Hiram

Try for leadership This reading has been one of the most interesting I ever read regarding the topic. I think that leadership is more than a word most companies use in their daily language, as the authors said, leadership must be a vivid experience, and it is up to us try harder to act as a leader, i......more

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