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Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others Through Mindfulness, Hope, and Compassion
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Sales rank 22,861
Customers rating (based on 15 reviews)
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The blockbuster bestseller Primal Leadership introduced us to "resonant" leaders, individuals who manage their own and others' emotions in ways that drive success. Leaders everywhere recognized the validity of resonant leadership, but struggled with how to achieve and sustain resonance amid the relentless demands of work and life. Now, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee provide an indispensable guide to overcoming the vicious cycle of stress, sacrifice, and dissonance that afflicts many leaders. Drawing from extensive multidisciplinary research and real-life stories, Resonant Leadership offers a field-tested framework for creating the resonance that fuels great leadership. Rather than constantly sacrificing themselves to workplace demands, leaders can manage the cycle using specific techniques to combat stress, avoid burnout, and renew themselves physically, mentally, and emotionally. The book reveals that the path to resonance is through mindfulness, hope, and compassion, and shows how intentionally employing these qualities creates effective and enduring leadership. Great leaders are resonant leaders. Resonant Leadership offers inspiration-and tools-to spark and sustain resonance in ourselves and in those we lead.
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| Publisher | Harvard Business Press | | Release date | 10/2005 | | Availability | Usually ships in 24 hours | | Edition | Hardcover |
| | List price | $25.95 | | Our price | $17.13 (you save 33.99%) | | Used price | from $3.9 |
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 Understated cover yields genius within
Perhaps it is because I have experienced most of what is in this book that I am so impressed. Most books are filled with a few meaningful and original thoughts, many more obvious points, all surrounded by page-filling mind-numbing fluff - stories, anecdotes, etc.
This book really bangs it out page after page with filler that actually matters.
The only criticism might be that they don't more forcibly prescribe the concrete practices that would lead readers to experience the transformative process. I'm thinking in terms of 'If I were CEO, I'd make all my managers do this', and maybe that is antithetical to the point of the book.
In any case, I was able to fill in the gaps in my personal experience now, having gone through the transition. Not sure it would have led me to the solution... maybe that is another book.
 Leading with Compassion
Mindfulness, hope and compassion are three key elements of good leadership, according to authors Richard Boyatsis and Annie McKee in this book. "Resonant leadership" occurs great leaders build resonant relationships with those around them. A "resonant" leader is the type of leader who inspires people to want to follow, rather than leading by coercion or merely from a position of power.
Mindfulness occurs when leaders live in full consciousness of self, others, nature and society. Hope occurs when leaders inspire others through clarity of vision, optimism, and belief in turning dreams into reality. Compassion occurs when leaders understand the challenges, difficulties, sacrifices and opportunities faced by the people they lead and serve. Resonance occurs when a leader's actions are marked by mindfulness, hope and compassion, and dissonance occurs at any other time. Dissonance is the default state.
As well as describing the "soft" qualities required of great leaders, the book provides numerous exercises designed to assist the reader in diagnosing his or her position and developing the key qualities. The book does not cover all of the skills and personal characteristics required of a leader, but it does provide very useful insights into how a leader can improve in certain key areas.
You must read it
This book offers an interesting mix of analysis of effective leaders, highly valued by their employees and a task list of how to become one. While these kind of tasks are usually found in self-help and motivation books, in this case they are supported by vivid examples and essential outcomes, which increases your initial motivation to actually complete these tasks, not just skip through them.
Although sometimes too much beating around the bush and explaining one obvious thing in five pages, this book is a thing to read to everybody, who is willing to grow and develop as a personality - do not let word "leadership" in the tagline misguide you. So, dig in and become a better person, colleague, friend.
Good book, very good insights to leadership
Very good insights to leadership! Even CEO's have their struggles to overcome and provides good tips on how to renew yourself and stay motivated as a leader
EI Plus.
Really takes EI one step further by demonstrating the additional importance of Compassion and Hope, plus the need to step back and review; leadership can be lonely!!!
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