Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others Through Mindfulness, Hope, and Compassion

By Annie McKee and Richard E. Boyatzis

Book Overview

The blockbuster best seller Primal Leadership introduced us to resonant leaders--individuals who manage their own and others' emotions in ways that drive success. Leaders everywhere recognized the validity of resonant leadership, but struggled with how to achieve and sustain resonance amid the relentless demands of work and life. Now, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee provide an indispensable guide to overcoming the vicious cycle of stress, sacrifice, and dissonance that afflicts many leaders. Drawing from extensive multidisciplinary research and real-life stories, Resonant Leadership offers a field-tested framework for creating the resonance that fuels great leadership. Rather than constantly sacrificing themselves to workplace demands, leaders can manage the cycle using specific techniques to combat stress, avoid burnout, and renew themselves physically, mentally, and emotionally. The book reveals that the path to resonance is through mindfulness, hope, and compassion and shows how intentionally employing these qualities creates effective and enduring leadership. Great leaders are resonant leaders. Resonant Leadership offers the inspiration--and tools--to spark and sustain resonance in ourselves and in those we lead.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B004OEILHM
• ISBN13: 9781591395638
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.9" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

You must read it

This book offers an interesting mix of analysis of effective leaders, highly valued by their employees and a task list of how to become one. While these kind of tasks are usually found in self-help and motivation books, in this case they are supported by vivid examples and essential outcomes, which increases your initial motivation to actually complete these tasks, not just skip through them. Although sometimes too much beating around the bush and explaining one obvious thing in five pages, this book is a thing to read to everybody, who is willing to grow and develop as a personality - do not let word "leadership" in the tagline misguide you. So, dig in and become a better person, colleague, friend.

EI Plus.

Really takes EI one step further by demonstrating the additional importance of Compassion and Hope, plus the need to step back and review; leadership can be lonely!!!

Mindfullness, brilliant!...

Intesting book - mindfullness, benevolence, compassion, optimism and hope are behaviors that allow leaders to display the very best of their game. If you are one individuals who aspire to be a SUPERB leader who helps, inspires and drives results, this book will certainly be a roadmoap to get there...

A LEADERSHIP STYLE THAT USES EMOTIONS AND VALUES TO ENERGIZE & RENEW TEAMS & ORGANIZATIONS.

The resonant leader is inspirational, creates a positive emotional tone characterized by hope, experiences and demonstrates compassion, and is authentic-in tune with self, others, and the environment. Such leaders exude emotions that are contagious and affect all around them; top leaders can impact an entire organization. These leaders are consciously attuned to people, focus them on a common cause, build a sense of community, and create a climate that unleashes peoples' passion, energy, and unified spirit. The authors have studied such leaders and provide examples of how they sustain resonance through difficult times through a process of intentional change and self-renewal. The book is not only about resonant leaders but how they infuse their organizations with spirit and energy and change them. It provides insights, guidance and exercises that inspire reflection. Research underlying the book's concepts, ideas and practices is cited and explained. The authors have written an inspirational and insightful book with cases that bring the concept of resonant leadership to life. This is an important contribution with enduring value. Highly recommended.

A highly accessible guide filled with examples and plain common sense

Organizational Behavior and Human Resources professor Richard Boyatzis and Co-chair of Teleos Leadership Institute Annie McKee present Resonant Leadership, a guide to the three key elements - mindfulness, hope, and compassion - that are critical to enabling renewal and stability in great leaders. Emphasizing the importance of balance so as to avoid burnout and the precipitation of failure due to exhaustion and excessive stress, Resonant Leadership is an optimistic yet serious-minded discourse about what it takes to be a leader in an increasingly pressurized world. A highly accessible guide filled with examples and plain common sense.