The Business Leader's Health Manual (eBook)

Tips and Strategies for getting to the top and staying there

J. McGannon (Autor)

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2016 | 2009
XII, 255 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-0-230-23690-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Many business leaders do not take care of their health. Each chapter of this interactive manual explores an aspect of the health and vitality of the modern business leader, and provides solutions based on up-to-date medical science and more than 20 year's experience at INSEAD with more than 75,000 corporate executives.

Autor

  JULIETTE MCGANNON, RM, CFI , is the Managing Director of the MIPH (McGannon Institute of Proactive Health), based in Nice, France, as well as the Director of the Leader's Health Programme (LHP) at INSEAD. She received her training in California in nutrition and physiology and her field of expertise is fitness prescription and effective stress management. She is the innovator of S.M.A.R.T. (Stress Management And Relaxation Techniques), the Forest& Paris Expeditions (Team Building) and Yoga for Managers modules. These modules have been enjoyed by over 75, 000 international managers from over 40 countries. Her audio CD, Managing Personal& Professional Balance during Life's Hurricanes has brought welcome relief to tens of thousands of managers. Her present research project is focussed on the techniques that optimally balance the left and right brains during stressful moments.DR MICHAEL MCGANNON, MD is a specialist in preventative medicine, particularly as it applies to business life. He holds a doctorate in medicine from Georgetown University (Washington, DC, USA) and a post-doctoral research fellowship in Gastroenterology (Digestive Diseases) from Stanford University Medical Center (California, USA). He has also written extensively at the health/business interface for such international publications as The International Herald Tribune (Paris), The Financial Times (London), L'Impresa (Milano), The Business Times (Singapore) among others.They have conducted the Leader's Health Program (LHP) at business institutes, corporations, and embassies throughout Europe, the US, the Middle East and Asia.

Inhalt

Cover 1
The Business Leader’s Health Manual 4
Contents 8
The authors 12
Foreword 13
Introduction 14
1 The Heart of the Matter: From Ticker to Timebomb … and Back! 16
2 Nutrition for Health, Energy, and Longevity 66
3 Fit to Lead 101
4 The Leader’s Brain: Protecting the Hardware 153
5 Programme the Software from a Normal Brain to a Superb Brain 176
Epilogue 203
Appendix I Nutritional Tables, Self-Assessments, and Exercises 207
Appendix IIa Building a Left Brain You Can Trust 233
Appendix IIb Building a Right Brain to Take Refuge and Recharge 249
Index 263

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.1.2016
• Reihe/Serie: INSEAD Business Press
• Reihe/Serie: INSEAD Business Press
• Zusatzinfo: XII, 255 p.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: business • Care • Health • Nutrition • Strategy
• ISBN-10: 0-230-23690-1 / 0230236901
• ISBN-13: 978-0-230-23690-5 / 9780230236905