The Financial Times Guide to Executive Health: Building Your Strengths, Managing Your Risks - Hardcover

Quick, James Campbell; Cooper, Cary L.; Quick, Jonathan D.; Gavin, Joanne H.; Quick, James; Cooper, Cary; Quick, Jonathan; Gavin, Joanne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0273654284 ISBN 13: 9780273654285

Publisher: Financial Times Management, 2002

Synopsis

Increasingly, business people are waking up to the fact that prolonged stress can be extremely damaging - but they just don't know what to do about it. If stress is not tackled, mental and physical health suffer and people become less productive, less effective and more destructive - as well as ill. This book is the health and lifestyle coach for the intelligent business person. It takes a positive approach to managing your own health and across all areas: physical, psychological, spiritual and ethical. High-profile case studies - of business and political figures from past and present - highlight the issues. Health is your greatest asset and you should manage it as you would any other valuable commodity. "The FT Guide to Executive Health "helps you to build on strengths, identify weaknesses and develop strategies to combat risk.

About this title

About the Author

Joanne H. Gavin is the recipient of the Otto Alois Faust Doctoral Fellowship in Character and Health.

From the Back Cover

Increasingly, business people are waking up to the fact that prolonged stress can be extremely damaging—but they just don't know what to do about it. If stress is not tackled, mental and physical health suffer and people become less productive, less effective, and more destructive—as well as ill.

This book is the health and lifestyle coach for the intelligent business person. It takes a positive approach to managing your own health and across all areas: physical, psychological, spiritual and ethical. High-profile case studies—of business and political figures from past and present—highlight the issues.

Health is your greatest asset and you should manage it as you would any other valuable commodity. The FT Guide to Executive Health helps you to build on strengths, identify weaknesses, and develop strategies to combat risk.

Edition details

• Publisher: Financial Times Management
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0273654284
• ISBN 13: 9780273654285
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224