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Book SynopsisIn The Stress Effect, leadership expert Henry L. Thompson argues that stress is often the real culprit behind leadership failure: when leaders stress levels become sufficiently elevated - their ability to effectively use their emotional intelligence and cognitive ability in tandem to make wise decisions is significantly impaired.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Good Leaders Make Good Decisions Under Stress 1
1 How Leaders Make Decisions 11
2 How Cognitive Intelligence Influences Decision Making 49
3 Emotional Intelligence and Decision Making 81
4 Stress and Decision Making 109
5 How Stress Leads to Poor Decision Making 137
6 Increasing Stress Management Capacity 167
7 Developing Cognitive Resilience 193
8 Building Stress Resilient Emotional Intelligence 221
9 The Seven Best Practices to Prevent Stress 243
Conclusion 283
Notes 287
Acknowledgments 311
About the Author 315
Index 316
