Resonant Leadership

By: Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

We've all seen it before: the ambitious leader who enjoys great success and then, inexplicably, crashes and burns. Perhaps this leader has been you. Why does this happen, in spite of the leader's vision, talent, and emotional intelligence?

Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee, co-authors, with Daniel Goleman, of the international best-seller Primal Leadership, argue that today's leaders face unprecedented challenges that result in a vicious cycle of stress and sacrifice, with little or no recovery time built in. Consequently, even the most resonant leaders, whose ability to deftly manage their own and others' emotions once drove their companies to greatness, end up spiraling into dissonance.

In this new audiobook, Boyatzis and McKee marshal decades of multidisciplinary research and hands-on consulting work to provide a practical framework for how leaders can create and sustain resonance in their relationships, their teams, and their organizations. To counter the inevitable "power stress" of the leadership role, leaders must consciously manage the "Cycle of Sacrifice and Renewal" by stepping out of destructive patterns and renewing themselves physically, mentally, and emotionally. Through vivid examples, the authors show how three key elements - mindfulness, hope, and compassion - are essential to enabling renewal and sustaining resonance.

Leaders can't sustain effectiveness if they can't sustain themselves. Resonant Leadership offers inspiration, dozens of exercises, and other tools to help listeners become and remain successful leaders in their work and in their lives.

©2005 Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee (P)2007 Gildan Media Corp

Renew your passion and effectiveness

This most important audio book builds on the authors' previous bestseller, Primal Leadership, one the business world's all time favorites. Their new audio offers executives effective exercises and ways to strengthen their ethics and their emotional resilience. This is as must have for leaders and managers in any business who want to be happy and avoid burnout.

Wow! The best book I've read in a long time!

This book was perfect timing for me! It spoke to me on so many levels! I can use everything it spoke about - to say the least it resonated with me! Thank you!

Solid

Great book and must-read for all managers. It outlines common pitfalls through narratives and explains how to develop your own leadership skills within an organization or team, at any level.

Real stories and examples make this one enjoyable

Real stories and examples make this one enjoyable to review many times as a continual development of resonant leadership

BEST BOOK ON LEADERSHIP

I highly recommend this book to every person who is commited to her personal development as a requisit to become a genuin and inspiring leader. The authors take you, step by step with an elegant and straightforward model to overcome our fears and biases, and to leave our typical disonance way of boosing, until we reach the radiant type of leadership. So, go for it.

Great Concepts

The book covered what many companies neglect in management and leadership.Most of the examples were hard to relate to but the context was useful and exciting.

Onward and Upward with Hope

This book came at the perfect time.

It presents realistic and inspiring opportunities for growth as a leader.

Growth just with in yourself but also how you support others.

Give this a listen and become a resonant leader too :-)

Great advice for anyone!

I am a strong believer in the power of positive thinking and energy. This book strengthened my beliefs about how to lead and the activities are a great way to keep those positive thoughts going.

Boyatzis on Leadership

Don't for all this was a good book. it got a little long in the tooth in the middle. The information was solid and useful. I would recommend this for somebody else to read or listen to

Read as Part of an EMBA Class

There is not exactly a dearth of leadership books out there. I suppose this one is as good as any of the others. it is my understanding that this approach is not necessarily the "in" leadership buzz so if you are looking for a reasonably well written leadership book that might provide a new perspective, this might be just the ticket.