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Book SynopsisThink of the last time you were at your best and working in the zone. Now compare that to all the time you've spent just going through the motions. How would you quantify the difference between the two in terms of how you felt and what you produced? Would you rate it as a 5% difference. . . a 50% difference? Most people would describe the gulf between those two states of being as vastas deep and wide as the Grand Canyon. For quality of experience, engagement, productivity, and just the sheer joy of living, the majority of people asked to rate the difference between flourishing and floundering found it to be around a factor of 10.
In their work with managers and executives at leading companies around the world, authors Tal Ben-Shahar and Angus Ridgway have identified a select group of individuals who consistently perform at their peak, and who make work seem effortless and working with them feel easy. The name they've given to those lucky few is 10X Leaders. You know who they
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Part I The Disaggregated World 1
Chapter 1 The 10X Effect: Performance Multipliers to Achieve Lasting Success and Fulfillment 3
Chapter 2 Giving Way to the New: The Boundaryless Twenty-First-Century Work Environment 15
Chapter 3 Myths of Happiness and Leadership: Making the Case for SHARP 29
Part II What 10x Leaders Do 41
Chapter 4 Strengths: Making the Most of Your Gifts 43
Chapter 5 Health: Injecting Energy into Life and Work 67
Chapter 6 Absorption: Revealing the Extraordinary in the Ordinary through Mindful Engagement 87
Chapter 7 Relationships: Forming Authentic and Positive Bonds 107
Chapter 8 Purpose: Meaning and Commitment are the Path to Joyful Leadership 129
Chapter 9 The Balanced Approach: SHARP and Cascading Success 149
Part III How to Change—And Stay Changed 159
Chapter 10 Obstacles—and Pathways—to Lasting Behavioral Change: Neuroplasticity and the Possibility of Joyful Transformation 161
Chapter 11 Creating New, Durable Pathways to Joyful Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Making SHARP Changes 177
Chapter 12 Finale: The 10X Effect Revisited and Becoming the Sum Total of Who You are 191
Notes 197
Index 215
