The Joy of Leadership: How Positive Psychology Can Maximize Your Impact (and Make You Happier) in a Challenging World

Tal Ben-Shahar, PhD · Angus Ridgway

Mar 2018 · Gildan Media · Narrated by Ramon De Ocampo

About this audiobook

People functioning at the highest level are what the authors call 10x leaders. Research on these leaders consistently brought up five major strengths. This book teaches readers to become a 10x leader using these five key areas, the SHARP framework. - Strengths: 10X leaders stop trying to eliminate weaknesses and learn to focus on their strengths - Health: 10X leaders stop trying to eliminate stress and learn how to integrate periods of restoration - Absorption: 10X leaders stop waiting for the lightning of focus and creativity to strike and learn how to achieve consistent engagement and presence - Relationships: 10X leaders stop trying to exert power and control and learn to cultivate healthy relationships through positivity and authenticity - Purpose: 10X leaders stop grinding out tasks and learn how to find meaning and commitment in everything they do The 10X elixir of peak performance comes not from focusing on just one of these areas, but from learning to light the fire of all five aspects of SHARP and functioning naturally with them on a daily basis. If you just cultivate one or two aspects of leadership skills you are unlikely to succeed.

About the author

Tal Ben-Shahar, PhD, has written eight books, including the New York Times bestseller Happier. He is cofounder of the Happiness Studies Academy and Potentialife. He obtained his BA and PhD from Harvard, and for the last twenty years has been teaching leadership, happiness, and mindfulness to audiences all over the world.

Angus Ridgway is cofounder and CEO of Potentialife, a leadership program that enables companies to implement behavioral change on thousands of leaders, leveraging the most recent academic developments in Positive Psychology. Prior to founding Potentialife with Tal Ben-Shahar, Angus was a Senior Partner at McKinsey&Company.

A graduate of Carnegie Mellon, Ramon de Ocampo is best known for his television work, especially for his recurring roles on many hit TV shows, including The West Wing, Notorious, 12 Monkeys, and Sons of Anarchy. A longtime audiobook narrator, Ramon is an Audie Award nominee and has won eleven AudioFile Earphones Awards.