Sustaining Executive Performance

Book excerpt: Thousands of executives have discovered a powerful truth: the best way to improve your performance is to improve your health and well being. Helps you leverage this truth in your life and your business. Brings together breakthrough insights and techniques honed through seven years of pioneering the internationally-renowned Sustaining Executive Performance (SEP) program, and working with hundreds of leading executives worldwide. Reveals the profound connections between living a more sustainable, happy, and productive life and improving your organization on metrics ranging from innovation to resilience. Addresses core business themes including design thinking, continuous innovation, and corporate social responsibility. Shows how to apply all five elements of the SEP program in your own life: MOVE, RECOVER, FOCUS, FUEL, and TRAIN. Offers specific guidance for changing your own habits in areas ranging from sleep to meetings and communication. Includes interviews with leading executives and experts, ranging from the COO of top global telecom Telefonica to the Head Chef of the world's most admired restaurant. Each interview offers specific takeaways you can use to become a more effective leader - and a more fulfilled human being--