The Mindful Leader: 7 Practices for Transforming Your Leadership, Your Organisation and Your Life

by Michael Bunting

The ultimate guide to becoming an extraordinary leader - while finding happiness, gaining authenticity, and banishing stress Integrating proven mindfulness practices and world-class leadership theory, The Mindful Leader is the essential guide for self-aware leadership. The book simplifies mindfulness principles and links them solidly to business benefits. It provides a practically-grounded template for leaders to develop unprecedented levels of self awareness, wellbeing and effectiveness.

Research findings throughout the book detail the positive impact of mindfulness from the perspectives of brain science, psychology and leadership. International case studies from a variety of industries illustrate the everyday implementation of mindful leadership. You'll learn easy mindfulness practices that you can implement today and a practical framework for everyday mindful leadership. You'll also be given access to online resources for vision reflections, values clarification, mindfulness practices and more.

Mindful leadership is a hot topic - but it's not as simple as "when you become mindful, great leadership will spontaneously happen." This book serves as both mindfulness training and leadership training, clarifying the parallel while guiding you through the many points of intersection.


Improve your leadership skills via context-specific mindfulness practices Learn mindfulness from a practical perspective, with real workplace skills Discover how leaders from around the world practice mindful leadership every day Understand the neuroscience link between mindfulness and great leadership Learn practices that deliver a deeper sense of integrity, authenticity, fulfillment and bottom-line results improvement Mindfulness provides real, practical tools for self-awareness, mental wellbeing, stress reduction and more. When practiced through a leadership lens, it becomes much more than just another leadership guide. Mindfulness transforms leadership as a whole, delivering real, lasting change that transcends typical leadership training. For a clear, concise framework of mindfulness at work, The Mindful Leader is the ideal guide for those serious about effective, sustainable leadership.

Genres: Leadership, Nonfiction, Self Help, Psychology, Business, Personal Development, Philosophy

187 pages, Paperback

Published August 29, 2016

Reviews

[Daniel Taylor]

Mindfulness deserves to be sweeping the globe, impacting every area of our lives. In recent times, I've become consistent with my daily mindfulness meditation practice using the Headspace app. Already I've noticed I'm experiencing many of the benefits Bunting talks about in his book -- and as I keep up my practice, I expect to enjoy many of the other benefits. So why did I only rate this book four stars? The structure of the book is weak: the subtitle promises seven practices, but nowhere are those practices made explicit.

[Zack Price]

Surprised me with how much I enjoyed this book. Great insight into personal psychology and identifying an underlying issue that is causing stress or anger. Great resource for those in a corporate setting to develop a tool set for workplace interactions.

[HOLLY HENDERSON]

I'm pretty moved by this book, it's a life changer if applied in every day life. I've recently been promoted to a management position, while also a recovering addict. I live in the moment as best I can, but this book helps put into play healthy boundaries and staying true to yourself.

I'm pretty moved by this book, it's a life changer if applied in every day life. I've recently been promoted to a management position, while also a recovering addict. I live in the moment as best I can, but this book helps put into play healthy boundaries and staying true to yourself.

[Sarah]

Absolutely loved it. Bunting does an excellent job at communicating the book's intention with precision (as stated on the front cover). He shares an in-depth discussion about practicing self-awareness and social awareness in both work and life contexts. Great case studies used to exemplify the assessment, application of a mindful intervention and their outcomes. Also shares research relating to mental and physical health, such as dopamine and serotonin release. This book will probably be in my top three for 2019. Hard to beat. Highly, highly recommend.

[Izette]

If you're a leader, then this book will hold value.

When we lead vulnerably and we are able to see how we show up with or around others, we can lead others to be more mindful.

I love the one step at a time approach. It was also great to be given examples of how leaders, which Michael has worked with, applied mindfullness facing both day-to-day and stressful situations.

[Peter Nestor]

Compassionate guidance from a thoughtful author who has clearly done a lot of the hard work himself. Found the guidance to resonate with how I want to show up in the world, and to be immediately actionable, which is rare in this genre. Highly recommend.

[Brett]

Contains an amazing amount of research into the benefits of mindfulness in business. It can be a bit much if you are already a mindfulness ‘convert’. Stick it out though, the second half has excellent guidance.

[Sarah Godfrey]

This is a great book for anyone who has a brief experience of mindfulness and wants to learn how to use this approach in their leadership style.

[Libby]

Outstanding book with great teaching guide!

[Shelley Brown]

the Bible for mindful leadership!

[Julien]

A powerful book on leadership and self-awareness work. A must read for any leader in the modern world.

[Ha Hoang]

Be present. Take responsibility. Aim to help ppl to grow. Be mindful.

[707 unknown]

chưa thấy gì quá sức wow hay mới lạ trong lần đọc đầu tiên

[Thanh]

Có những nội dung cg được nhưng nhiều thứ ko quá mới với mình

[Rainey]

Repetitive but has good ideas.

[Maurya]

I got some really good thought provokers out of this book - and I have written them down and now I need to re-read and study them. Clearly he has done his research and his meditation / mindful time to be able to write this book so well.

I read it very slowly so I could absorb it. (It was also not a page turner for me.) I am not yet sure who I would recommend this to, yet, which is probably why I did not give it 5 stars.

[Byron Flores]

It is a weird way to show how the leader can meditate. Good for general culture

[Steven Austen]

Linkage with leadership

Interesting that Michael was happy to quote Buddha, but neglected to cite Christ. The framework linked to leadership was helpful.