Managing Executive Health: Personal and Corporate Strategies for Sustained Success [Hardcover]

A positive approach to managing executive-level stress and associated health problems.The health of managers, executives, and business leaders has a massive impact on the performance and prospects of modern organizations. This book argues for a positive approach to executive health, which emphasizes physical vigour, psychological well-being, spiritual vitality, and ethical integrity.The health of managers, executives, and business leaders has a massive impact on the performance and prospects of modern organizations. This book argues for a positive approach to executive health, which emphasizes physical vigour, psychological well-being, spiritual vitality, and ethical integrity.The health of managers, executives, and business leaders has a massive impact on the performance and prospects of modern organizations. If health problems are not tackled, people become less productive, less effective, and more destructive. It is clear that business leaders and human resource professionals cannot afford to ignore the impact of work-related health issues on company performance. Yet even acknowledging this fact still leaves us with a choice over how to proceed. Should we try to minimize those risks that typically lead to health problems or seek to strengthen executive health? While recognising that identifying health risks is the first step in any preventive health program, Managing Executive Health argues for a positive approach, which emphasizes physical vigour, psychological well-being, spiritual vitality, and ethical integrity. Key issues are illustrated throughout with case studies of high-profile figures from the worlds of business and politics.List of figures; List of tables; List of spotlights; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1. Competition, conflict, and executive health; 2. The Achilles' heel: risk and vulnerability; 3. The loneliness of command; 4. Work demands and travel; 5. Professional crisis and personal tragedy; 6. Executive women and health; 7. Physical health; 8. PlsÁ