Managing Executive Health
Personal and Corporate Strategies for Sustained Success

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Authors:
James Campbell Quick, University of Texas, Arlington
Cary L. Cooper, Lancaster University Management School
Joanne H. Gavin, Marist College, Poughkeepsie
Jonathan D. Quick, Management Sciences for Health, Cambridge MA

Date Published: June 2008
availability: Available
format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521688642

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The health of managers, executives, and business leaders has a massive impact on the performance and prospects of modern organizations. If health problems are not tackled, people become less productive, less effective, and more destructive. It is clear that business leaders and human resource professionals cannot afford to ignore the impact of work-related health issues on company performance. Yet even acknowledging this fact still leaves us with a choice over how to proceed. Should we try to minimize those risks that typically lead to health problems or seek to strengthen executive health? While recognising that identifying health risks is the first step in any preventive health program, Managing Executive Health argues for a positive approach, which emphasizes physical vigour, psychological well-being, spiritual vitality, and ethical integrity. Key issues are illustrated throughout with case studies of high-profile figures from the worlds of business and politics.
- Takes a holistic approach to managing executive well-being
- Includes real-life examples of high-profile figures from business and politics, such as Sir Terry Leahy (CEO, Tesco), Indra Nooyi (President and CEO, PepsiCo) and Condoleeza Rice (U.S. Secretary of State)
- Provides strategies to build on strengths, identify weaknesses and to combat risks
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'Our research shows that almost 100% of executives, managers and professionals become dissonant within themselves and with others due to the ravages of chronic stress. The sad fact is that most never recover and doom themselves to less effective, less sustainable performance – not to mention a less exciting life. Most books about executive health and stress make you feel guilty and worry - this one creates hope. Read it, it could save your life!' Richard Boyatzis, Case Western Reserve University and co-author of the international best seller Primal Leadership, Resonant Leadership and Becoming a Resonant Leader
'According the EU Lisbon Strategy, what Europe needs for health and development of its population is 'more and better jobs.' Optimal executive health is absolutely essential for achieving this. I know of no better text to promote such a development than the one now prepared by Quick et al. It should be compulsory reading in every business school and board room, worldwide.' Lennart Levi, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
'This book is long overdue. Managing Executive Health convincingly builds a well documented case for the authors' contention that physical health and psychological well-being form the necessary base from which sustained high performance can be successfully realized.' Jim Loehr, Human Performance Institute and best-selling co-author of The Power of Full Engagement
'A comprehensive analysis of the pitfalls and stresses associated with leadership and why current conditions are contributing to an increase in these problems and their adverse fiscal and health effects. This concise volume contains numerous useful suggestions on how to prevent or minimize such complications so that executives can learn how to become more productive and less self destructive.' Paul J. Rosch, The American Institute of Stress; Clinical Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, New York Medical College
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Product details
- Date Published: June 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521688642
- length: 256 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.42kg
- contains: 7 b/w illus. 7 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of spotlights
Acknowledgements
Foreword
1. Competition, conflict, and executive health
2. The Achilles' heel: risk and vulnerability
3. The loneliness of command
4. Work demands and travel
5. Professional crisis and personal tragedy
6. Executive women and health
7. Physical health
8. Psychological well-being
9. Spiritual vitality
10. Ethical character
11. A secure base for performing and achieving
Bibliography
Index.
Authors
James Campbell Quick, University of Texas, Arlington
James Campbell Quick is John and Judy Goolsby Distinguished Professor and founding Director of Goolsby Leadership Academy at the University of Texas at Arlington. Professor Quick has over 100 publications in 10 languages and is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), the American Psychological Association (APA), the American Psychological Society, and the American Institute of Stress (AIS).
Cary L. Cooper, Lancaster University Management School
Cary L. Cooper is Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health and Pro-Vice Chancellor (External Relations) at Lancaster University. He is the author of over 100 books, Editor-in-Chief of the The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management and the editor of Who's Who in the Management Sciences. Professor Cooper was awarded a CBE for his contribution to organizational health.
Joanne H. Gavin, Marist College, Poughkeepsie
Joanne H. Gavin is Assistant Professor of Management at Marist College. She has published in many leading journals and has co-authored chapters in International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior, and Psychology Builds a Healthy World.
Jonathan D. Quick, Management Sciences for Health, Cambridge MA
Jonathan D. Quick is a family physician and public health management specialist. He is President and CEO of Management Sciences for Health, an international group dedicated to closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at Boston University School of Public Health.