Executive Stamina: How to Optimize Time, Energy, and Productivity to Achieve Peak Performance - Hardcover

Seldman, Marty; Seldman, Joshua

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470222905 ISBN 13: 9780470222904

Publisher: Wiley, 2008

Synopsis

Executive Stamina combines the wisdom and methodology of the best executive coaching with the cutting-edge training techniques of world-class athletes to help busy, stressed-out executives achieve peak performance. This holistic approach to executive performance uses practical tips and tools to help you maximize your career potential, maintain your physical health, and stay aligned with your personal values. Executive Stamina is all you need to learn how to optimize your time, energy, and productivity to achieve more and live better.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

What does stamina have to do with executive success? Consider the following: stamina gives you the ability to remain consistently focused on and energized about the task at hand. Being overworked, overstressed, and exhausted increases your chances of making career-damaging mistakes. With e-mail, cell phones, and Blackberry devices increasingly blurring the line between work and personal life, stamina is no longer simply an asset for executives; it's an absolute necessity.

In Executive Stamina, you'll learn all the skills, techniques, and positive practices needed to create a sustainable path to achieve your full career potential. Renowned executive coach Marty Seldman and endurance coach Joshua Seldman will introduce you to the revolutionary training system they've used with great success on top executives and endurance athletes. You'll find hundreds of tips and tools that will help you maximize your career potential, while maintaining your health, staying in touch with your values, and avoiding costly tradeoffs in your personal life.

It starts by learning how to align your career ambitions with your core values, commitments, current priorities, and long-term goals. You'll learn to determine what is most important to you, whether your schedule is actually aligned with your priorities, and how to find your career sweet spot.

You'll build stamina and optimize your job performance through:

• Progressive workout plans
• Stamina-building nutrition programs
• A personalized stress-management plan
• Identifying high-payoff activities
• Taking control of your calendar
• Dealing with distracting people who waste your time
• Recognizing change and understanding its implications

You'll also find inspiring profiles of executives from a wide variety of industries, whose extraordinary stamina has enabled them to maintain consistently superior focus, judgment, and leadership skills. You'll discover the secrets of their personal success and be able to apply them in your own career.

Whether you're trying to make it through a grueling project in one piece or planning for a lifetime of repeated success, Executive Stamina is your key to developing and maintaining the physical, mental, and emotional power needed to come out on top.

From the Back Cover:

Praise for EXECUTIVE STAMINA

"Seldman is a world-class executive coach. Executive Stamina is a brilliant how-to book. It will help anyone maximize his or her full career potential and live a more balanced, integrated life. His advice is priceless."
—Michael White, CEO, Pepsico International, and Vice Chairman, Pepsico

"Whether you've just gotten a promotion, or have been CEO of a Fortune 500 company for eight years, or if you just want a better shot at realizing your dreams, Executive Stamina will provide you with pearls of practical insight and wisdom which will guide your journey. I can think of many colleagues, friends, and family members to give this book to, including my two sons."
—Edward Ludwig, CEO and Chairman, Becton, Dickinson and Company

"Life wouldn't be interesting if there were no challenges. But you could end up being totally stressed out if you are not smart about managing them. You can get a lot smarter if you learn from this book."
—Sam Su, CEO, Yum! Brands, China Division

"In each of his books, Seldman has shown a talent for combining deep insights with practical application, based on years of experience coaching hundreds of executives and managers. Executive Stamina is no exception. Even the most effective executive is sure to find new ways to enhance his or her impact."
—Ed Bernard, Vice Chairman, T. Rowe Price Group

"With its focus on work/life balance and health, Executive Stamina is a remarkable gift to senior staff leaders in both the private and not-for-profit sectors. This book is wise, practical, and clearly grounded in many years of hands-on experience with the real lives of executives. It should be compulsory reading for every manager who yearns to be successful, while also being content and healthy."
—Melanie Macdonald, President and CEO, World Neighbors

"Executive Stamina provides great insight for executives or busy people in any field to find a balance in their work and personal lives. It was very helpful for me, but I think the younger generation of leaders will find it even more helpful as they put work/life balance at a much higher priority than their predecessors did."
—Al Carey, CEO, Frito-Lay

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0470222905
• ISBN 13: 9780470222904
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320