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Self-Leadership
The Definitive Guide to Personal Excellence

Second Edition


March 2019 | 256 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Written by the scholars who first developed the theory of self-leadership, Self-Leadership: The Definitive Guide to Personal Excellence offers powerful yet practical advice for leading oneself to personal excellence. Grounded in the most recently published, cutting-edge self-leadership research, this milestone book is based on a simple yet revolutionary principle: first learn to lead yourself, then you will be able to effectively lead others. This inclusive approach to self-motivation and self-influence equips readers with the strategies and tips they need to strengthen their own personal effectiveness. The updated Second Edition resonates with today’s students by featuring contemporary examples, new cases, new feature boxes, and the latest research.
 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Authors
 
1. An Introduction to Self-Leadership: The Journey Begins
Leadership

 
Sources of Leadership

 
We All Lead Ourselves

 
Self-Leadership

 
 
2. The Context of Self-Leadership: Mapping the Route
Conceptual Foundations of Self-Leadership

 
External Factors

 
Personal Factors

 
We Do Choose

 
 
3. Behavior-Focused Strategies: Overcoming Rough Roads, Detours, and Roadblocks
World-Altering Behavior-Focused Strategies

 
Self-Imposed Behavior-Focused Strategies

 
 
4. Natural Reward-Focused Strategies: Scenic Views, Sunshine, and the Joys of Traveling
Natural Rewards

 
What Makes Activities Naturally Rewarding?

 
Tapping the Power of Natural Rewards

 
Combining External and Natural Rewards

 
 
5. Constructive Thought-Focused Strategies: Developing a Travel Mind-Set
Our Psychological Worlds

 
Is There Power in Positive Thinking?

 
Evaluating Beliefs and Assumptions

 
Mental Practice

 
Thought Patterns

 
Opportunity or Obstacle Thinking

 
The Power of Failure

 
 
6. Team Self-Leadership: Sharing the Journey
Self-Leadership and Teams

 
Behavioral Aspects of Team Self-Leadership

 
Mental Aspects of Team Self-Leadership

 
Team Self-Leadership Still Means Individual Self-Leadership

 
Balancing the “Me” with the “We”

 
Groupthink versus Teamthink

 
 
7. Self-Leadership, Health, and Well-Being: Maintaining Physical and Emotional Fitness on the Journey
Self-Leadership and Fitness

 
What Executives Say about the Importance of Fitness

 
The Impact of Fitness on Job Performance

 
Executive Fitness Behaviors at a Glance

 
Exercise and Diet: The Keys to Fitness

 
Self-Leadership, Fitness, and Personal Effectiveness

 
Choosing How You Feel: Emotional Self-Leadership

 
Emotional Intelligence and Self-Leadership

 
Coping with Stress: Self-Leadership and Stress Management

 
Optimism and Self-Leadership

 
Happiness, Flow, and Self-Leadership

 
 
8. Individual Differences, Diversity, and Practical Applications: Multiple Paths to Uniqueness
Personality and Self-Leadership

 
Diversity and Self-Leadership

 
Applications in Athletics

 
Applications in Work/Organizational Situations

 
 
9. Reaching the Destination: But the Journey Continues . . .
A Self-Leadership Framework

 
A Tale of Self-Leadership

 
The Tale in Perspective

 
Personal Effectiveness

 
Some Additional Thoughts

 
 
Notes
 
Index

Supplements

Instructor Resources

study.sagepub.com/selfleadership2e

Password-protected Instructor Resources include the following:

  • A Microsoft® Word® test bank is available containing multiple choice, true/false, and essay questions for each chapter.
  • The test bank provides you with a diverse range of pre-written options as well as the opportunity for editing any question and/or inserting your own personalized questions to effectively assess students’ progress and understanding.
  • Editable, chapter-specific Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides offer you complete flexibility in easily creating a multimedia presentation for your course.
  • Case notes include summary, analysis, and answers to case questions, providing an essential reference and teaching tool.
  • Carefully selected, web-based video links feature relevant interviews, lectures, personal stories, inquiries, and other content for use in independent or classroom-based explorations of key topics.
Student Study Site

The open-access Student Study Site includes the following:

  • Carefully selected, web-based video links feature relevant interviews, lectures, personal stories, inquiries, and other content for use in independent or classroom-based explorations of key topics.

Christopher P. Neck

Dr. Christopher P. Neck is currently an Associate Professor of Management at Arizona State University, where he held the title “University Master Teacher”. From 1994 to 2009, he was part of the Pamplin College of Business faculty at Virginia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in Management from Arizona State University and his M.B.A. from Louisiana State University. Neck is author and/or coauthor of twenty-seven books including Self-Leadership: The Definitive Guide to Personal Excellence (1st Edition, 2017, Sage Publishers; 2nd Edition, 2019); Get a Kick Out of Life: Expect the Best of Your Body, Mind, and Soul at Any Age (2017, Clovercroft... More About Author

Charles C. Manz

Charles C. Manz, Ph.D. is a speaker, consultant, and bestselling author of over 200 articles and scholarly papers and more than 20 books including Mastering Self-Leadership, 6th ed.; The New SuperLeadership; Share, Don’t Take the Lead; The Power of Failure; Fit to Lead; Business Without Bosses; The Leadership Wisdom of Jesus, 3rd ed.; Foreword Magazine best book-of-the-year Gold Award winner Emotional Discipline; Stybel-Peabody National Book prize winning SuperLeadership, and the forthcoming Self-Leadership: The Definitive Guide to Personal Excellence. His work has been featured on radio and television and in The Wall Street Journal,... More About Author

Jeffery Delmas Houghton

Dr. Jeffery D. Houghton completed his PhD in management at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) and is currently a professor of management at West Virginia University. Dr. Houghton has taught college-level business courses at Virginia Tech, Abilene Christian University (TX), Lipscomb University (TN), The International University (Vienna, Austria), and the U.S. Justice Department Federal Bureau of Prisons. Prior to pursuing a full-time career in academics, he worked in the banking industry as a loan officer and branch manager.    A member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Dr. Houghton’s... More About Author

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