Fit for the Fast Track: Surviving and Thriving in Modern Business Life

The authors have great insight into the stresses of modern life. ...This book is a must for ambitious professionals and executives. ...Don't end up at age 45 with a triple heart bypass... READ THIS BOOK !!! .

David Seddon, Senior Partner, PwC

 

"Michael and Juliette McGannon have developed unrivalled expertise in the field of executive health. Their knowledge, like this invaluable book, is based on getting to know and to really understand the pressures on more than 30,000 senior executives worldwide. No one knows more or how to express it better"

David Bell, Director of People, Pearson Plc

 

Just 20 minutes a day could save your life...

Modern working life may be taking its toll on the most valuable asset you have ¿ your health. For millions of us, the business lifestyle involves a catalogue of risks to the health of body and mind ¿ long hours, high stress, insufficient time to exercise or relax, pressure towards bad eating and drinking habits, and extended travel away from home.

Fit for the Fast Track provides you with both the mental and physical techniques you need to ensure that you can survive and thrive in modern business life. It shows that by focusing on yourself for just 20 minutes a day, you can live better, feel better and perform better ¿ and look forward to a brighter, fitter future.

Juliette McGannon

is the Managing Director of The McGannon Institute of Proactive Health (MIPH),

located in France, as well as the Director of the Health Management Program (HMP)at INSEAD.

She received her training in Physiology and Nutrition in California and her field of expertise is

fitness prescription and effective stress management. She is the innovator of the HMP, the

Work-Life Balance training, the Paris Expedition, The Forest Orientation (team building) Course and S.M.A.R.T., a stress management program which has been administered to over 32,000 international managers in 500 corporations. Her audio CD, Managing Personal / Professional Balance, has brought welcome relief to thousands of international managers worldwide. Her present projects include a multi-centre research study of the impact of stress on corporate health care costs.

Dr. Michael McGannon, M.D. is a specialist in preventative medicine, particularly as it

applies to corporate life. Dr. McGannon holds a doctorate in medicine from Georgetown

University, and a post-doctoral research fellowship from Stanford University. He is also a medical journalist, writing on issues such as stress, health and fitness in such international publications as the International Herald Tribune, Financial Times, The Business Times (Singapore), The European (London), L'Impresa. His first book, The Urban Warrior¿s Book of Solutions, Staying Healthy, Fit and Sane in the Business Jungle, published by Financial Times Publishing, is standard issue at INSEAD and corporate management courses.

Together they have conducted the Health Management Program at business schools

(e.g. INSEAD, IMD, Singapore Institute of Management), corporations, embassies and other

organizations throughout Europe, the USA and Asia. They innovated many tools (computer-based learning, CD-ROM, newsletters, video and audio presentations) to provide effective insights into the means to help managers and workers manage their own survival in an environment of ever-increasing demands.