This book compiles 10 articles (along with an interview with Martin Seligman on post-traumatic growth and building resilience) published in Harvard Business Review between 2001 and 2015, on various aspects of mental toughness: the behaviors of elite performers, leadership, resilience, cognitive fitness, sustained high performance, using stress positively, dealing with adversity, rebounding from career setbacks, and strategies for extreme negotiations. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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<p><b>Come back from every setback a stronger and better leader</b></p><p>If you read nothing else on mental toughness, read these ten articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the <b>Harvard Business Review</b> archive and selected the most important ones to help you build your emotional strength and resilience--and to achieve high performance.</p><p><b>This book will inspire you to:</b><ul><li>Thrive on pressure like an Olympic athlete</li><li>Manage and overcome negative emotions by acknowledging them</li><li>Plan short-term goals to achieve long-term aspirations</li><li>Surround yourself with the people who will push you the hardest</li><li>Use challenges to become a better leader</li><li>Use creativity to move past trauma</li><li>Understand the tools your mind uses to recover from setbacks.</li></ul></p><p>This collection of articles includes "How the Best of the Best Get Better and Better," by Graham Jones; "Crucibles of Leadership," by Warren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas; "Building Resilience," by Martin E.P. Seligman; "Cognitive Fitness," by Roderick Gilkey and Clint Kilts; "The Making of a Corporate Athlete," by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz; "Stress Can Be a Good Thing If You Know How to Use It," by Alla Crum and Thomas Crum; "How to Bounce Back from Adversity," by Joshua D. Margolis and Paul G. Stoltz; "Rebounding from Career Setbacks," by Mitchell Lee Marks, Philip Mirvis, and Ron Ashkenas; "Realizing What You're Made Of," by Glenn E. Mangurian; "Extreme Negotiations," by Jeff Weiss, Aram Donigian, and Jonathan Hughes; and "Post-Traumatic Growth and Building Resilience," by Martin Seligman and Sarah Green Carmichael.</p>
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