The Zen Leader
10 Ways to Go From Barely Managing to Leading Fearlessly
By: Ginny Whitelaw, Ph.D.
Published: April 22, 2012
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
ISBN-10: 1601632118
ISBN-13: 978-1601632111
Publisher: Career Press
"The pressure will not go away. But here is a way beyond giving up or giving in. Rather, give way and reveal the Zen leader in you", writes leadership coach and co-founder of Focus Leadership, Ginny WHitelaw, Ph.D., in her transformational and leadership strengthening book The Zen Leader: 10 Ways to Go From Barely Managing to Leading Fearlessly. The author describes how stress and pressures have increased dramatically, and leaders are challenged to cope with ever more and rapid change. Ginny Whitelaw offers an alternative approach to simply working harder and longer through the principles of Zen leadership.
Ginny Whitelaw understands that talented and dedicated leaders are facing difficulty keeping up with change. That ever increasing speed of change arrives in the form of new technology, globalization, industry transformation, and societal evolution. At the same time, speed causes even greater speed as a response. Ginny Whitelaw proposes moving beyond the usual attempts to cope with stress and the pressures of the modern world. In place of simply bearing down and working harder, or perusing the latest stress reduction techniques, the author provides another path. In place of fighting the pressure, and being used by it, Ginny Whitelaw suggests using the pressure itself to propel forward with fresh breakthroughs.
Ginny Whitelaw, Ph.D. (photo left) recognizes that developmental breakthroughs are necessary to achieve a fresh balance in work and in life. If the current state of thinking and acting is not up to the challenges faced, then a new higher level of breakthrough is necessary. For Ginny Whitelaw, this fresh alternative is what she calls breaking free and flip to the next stage. A flip, for the author, is a radical reframing of pressure to creating change from the inside out, personal exhaustion that changes to attracting the future, and seeing one's personality and applying the right types of energy.
Ginny Whitelaw proposes ten ways to flip, and how to apply these fresh reframings to any business or personal circumstances. The guiding flips are as follows:
* From Coping to Transforming
* From Tension to Extension
* From Or to And
* From Out There to In Here
* From Playing to Your Strengths to Strengthening Your Play
* From Controlling to Connecting
* From Driving Results to Attracting the Future
* From It's All About Me to I'm All About It
* From Local self to Whole Self
* From Delusion to Awakening
For me, the power of the book is how Ginny Whitelaw addresses the challenges faced in today's ever faster and pressure driven world, with an alternative approach to meeting those challenges. The author takes a holistic path toward reaching Zen leadership. Ginny Whitelaw presents leadership as a journey, and not a problem that can be solved with stress relief or some best practices. In its place, the author proposes a radical solution to the pressures of the modern world.
Instead of fighting them, or letting them control your emotions and actions, Ginny Whitelaw suggests using that pressure itself as an empowering force to flip and propel the leader to a higher level of understanding. Instead of thinking in terms of the leader doing more, the author guides to the leader to a place of being more. Instead of the pressures claiming the leader's energy and life, the transformational leader reclaims their entire being and themselves, and eventually achieve the status of Zen leadership.
I highly recommend the revolutionary and inspirational book The Zen Leader: 10 Ways to Go From Barely Managing to Leading Fearlessly by Ginny Whitelaw, to any leaders who are facing the stresses and challenges of the modern world and who are seeking a viable and fresh alternative to the usual strategies and best practices on offer. This book will transform your worldview as well as empowering you to take back your authentic self, leading to new and exciting breakthroughs.
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