LEADING MINDFULLY

A guide to cultivating everyday mindfulness for leaders seeking to make their organisations and workplaces productive, fulfilling and enjoyable places to be. Leading Mindfully offers inspiration, insight, provocation and practical tools.

imple practices of mindfulness can enhance our effectiveness and enjoyment in leadership work. Leadership teacher and researcher Amanda Sinclair shows how mindfulness is helpful for all of us involved in the day-to-day of leadership, in those interactions in organisations, communities, schools and families where we are seeking to influence others towards positive outcomes. Incorporating user-friendly summaries of the latest neuro-scientific and leadership research, Amanda invites us to experiment with twenty mindful practices. None of these activities take extra time or require us to withdraw to a mountain cave. They do help us find time for the people and purposes that matter most to us. In a world where we regularly feel captured by a never ending 'To Do' list, expanding demands and depleted energies, Leading Mindfully provides a practical, simple and powerful path to leadership that is not only sustainable but full of delights and pleasures. AMANDA SINCLAIR is a Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Business School. She is the author of several books on leadership: Trials at the Top, Doing Leadership Differently, New Faces of Leadership and Leadership for the Disillusioned. She consults to organisations and senior management teams, is a regular contributor to business publications, and also teaches yoga.