Boundless Leadership: The Breakthrough Method to Realize Your Vision, Empower Others, and Ignite Posit ive Change

by Joe Loizzo, Elazar Aslan

Overview

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Realize your fullest leadership potential, claim your boldest vision, and prioritize the well-being of your team and world with this new science-based approach to leadership.
 
Boundless Leadership provides a complete and systematic roadmap to finding meaning in your work, realizing your full leadership potential, and inspiring your team with resilience, innovation, compassion and confidence. Contemplative psychotherapist Joe Loizzo, MD, PhD, and executive advisor Elazar Aslan, MBA, PCC, offer a new science-based vision of leadership that prescribes disciplines of mind, heart, and body to help leaders cultivate clarity, compassion and fearlessness for themselves and throughout their organization.
 
Boundless Leadership offers accessible, real world applications to bring ease to leading oneself and others, and provides examples from the authors' experience with clients, including CEOs of multi-billion-dollar businesses, entrepreneurs and managers trying to balance the complex challenges of work and life in our interdependent age. Each section includes a range of practices based on neuropsychology and contemplative science, including guided meditations to improve focus and awareness, cultivate empathy and compassion, and build fearlessness and flow. Each section also offers a practical application to ease daily challenges, including clarifying intentions for better decision-making, improving accountability and responsibility for better team collaboration, and embodying purpose to optimize impact on one’s organization and society at large. Boundless Leadership is especially needed during this explosion of remote working and provides advice and guidance to remain productive and joyful when your work environment is in flux. Whether you're a CEO, manager, team leader, consultant, coach, social entrepreneur or community activist, this book offers the tools you need to clarify your vision, lead others, and ignite positive change in the world—giving you a much needed advantage in today’s fast-paced digital age.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611809213
Publisher:	Shambhala
Publication date:	12/21/2021
Pages:	296
Sales rank:	695,892
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

JOE LOIZZO, MD, PhD is a contemplative psychotherapist, a clinical researcher, and Buddhist scholar-teacher. He founded Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science, a nonprofit organization that interacts with over 12,000 people per year. On the faculty at the Weill Cornell Medical College and the Columbia University Center for Buddhist Studies, he lectures widely on the role of meditative learning in the future of health, education, and leadership, and teaches regular public classes and workshops. 

ELAZAR ASLAN, MBA, PCC is an executive advisor, speaker, and entrepreneur. After a successful career as a business executive, he became a professional coach over a decade ago, bringing his meditative practice and leadership principles to corporations including Chase, D&B, MasterCard, American Express, and ADP, as well as hyper growth start-ups. He is the founder of A Day of Kindness in Philadelphia, President of the Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia, and a Nalanda Institute board member.

Table of Contents

Preface: Our Evolutionary Tipping Point Joe Loizzo ix

Preface: Our Moral Imperative Elazar Aslan xiii

Part 1 The Truths of Boundless Leadership

1 The Situation: We Work Hard and Do Our Best, Yet We're Still Unfulfilled (and So Are the People around Us) 3

2 The Problem: Our Conditioned Way of Being: Surviving versus Thriving 7

3 The Promise: Unleashing Our Boundless Potential 20

4 The Path: An Optimized and Integrated Mind, Heart, and Body 22

5 The Practice: The New Science and Timeless Art of Optimizing Mind/Body Systems 27

Part 2 The Discipline of Mind-Trait of Self-Awareness

6 Leadership Is an Inside Job 37

7 Making Better Decisions: The Synergy of Self-Awareness and Clarity 47

8 Making the Shift from Stress-Driven Survival to Thriving in Clarity and Self-Awareness 56

9 Presence: The Brain Is a Social Organ 63

10 Balance: Developing True Confidence 69

11 Unbiased Awareness: Escaping the Trap of Fixed Judgment 74

12 Discernment: The Key to Incisive Decisions 80

13 Application: Leveraging the Power of Intention 84

Part 3 The Discipline of Heart-Trait of Authentic Engagement

14 Creating the Conditions for Others to Be Their Best 97

15 The Interplay of Compassion and Authentic Engagement: The Real Strength of Leadership 102

16 The Psychology of Compassion and Altruism: The Secret of Success 113

17 Debunking the Stereotypes: Authentic and Inauthentic Compassion 125

18 Empathy: Widening and Deepening the Circle of Trust 129

19 Resilience: Transforming Our Inner Demons 136

20 Engagement: Tuning In to the Strong Force of Emotions 143

21 Inspiration: Encountering the Mentor Within 151

22 Application: Empowered Responsibility: Modeling the Problem-Solving Mind 158

Part 4 The Discipline of Body, Heart, and Mind-Trait of Embodied Flow

23 The Awakened Body: Reimagining and Rewiring Ourselves 171

24 Leading Fearlessly: The Body Language of Flow 179

25 Boundless Vision: Evoking a New Reality 185

26 Empowering Speech: Rewriting Our Role 195

27 Natural Flow: Harnessing Pure Passion 203

28 Fearless Embodiment: The Stance of True Leadership 215

29 Application: Embodying Meaning and Purpose: The Integrated Leader 225

Part 5 A Commitment to Practice

30 Manifesting Your Vision and Purpose: The Big Picture 231

31 Integrating the Applications and Orienting toward Greater Purpose 237

32 The Mandala of Leadership 240

33 Commitment to Real Practice: Implementing the Plan 250

Afterword 253

Acknowledgments 255

Notes 263

Index 267

About the Authors 277

Editorial Reviews

A breathtakingly original approach to leadership, both practical and visionary. Anyone who cares about our future and how leaders can help shape a better future will find Boundless Leadership a source of inspiration.”—Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence

“In this empowering synthesis of contemplative insights and the science of the brain and mind, Joe Loizzo and Elazar Aslan offer a guide to personal and professional leadership that helps us find deep inner resources of strength in ourselves and others. The approach of this guide to being an impactful, compassionate, and visionary leader is built upon cutting-edge science and inspired by the wisdom of meditative practice, providing us the best of rigorous research and heartfelt truths that can help us all to create a new world of compassion, connection, and creativity.”—Daniel J. Siegel, MD, bestselling author of Mindsight; clinical professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and executive director, Mindsight Institute

“Boundless Leadership is a ground-breaking book that redefines what it means to be a true leader today. Rather than a superficial list of mundane and trite qualities found among ‘great leaders,’ Boundless Leadership takes a deep dive into the leader him/herself to identify the critical characteristics that define authentic, mindful and effective leadership in a world full of sloganeering. This book is as much for the leader as it is for those he or she leads. A unique and progressive take on the organization of the future, Joe and Elazar are to leadership what Demming was to quality. A must read for both current and aspiring leaders.”—Ron Insana, Senior Analyst, CNBC

“In a world increasingly powered by connectedness, interdependence and networks, the ability to shed historical win-lose thinking and embrace boundless leadership is critical for the success of any leader, organization or society. The evidence-based approach and pragmatic techniques contained in Boundless Leadership combine to create a powerful handbook that guides the reader to successfully achieve this necessary and advanced approach to self-development and leadership.”—Brad D. Smith, former CEO and Executive Chairman, Intuit
 
“This very practical book shows how to optimize your body, mind, and heart for twenty-first century leadership. From two master teachers, it is comprehensive, profound—and extraordinary.”—Rick Hanson, PhD, bestselling author of Resilient and Hardwiring Happiness; Senior Fellow, Greater Good Science Center, UC Berkeley
 
“Boundless Leadership fearlessly proclaims how to place human dignity and joy at the very center of the 21st century workplace. Clear, practical, and seasoned, Elazar and Joe use their decades of business experience and transformational practice to challenge, guide, inspire and advise. Their guidance is urgent; their insights, vital; their wisdom is refreshing!”—Michael Carroll, author of The Mindful Leader and Awake at Work
 
“Have you ever had a workplace which you just couldn’t relate to? Boundless Leadership provides us with a road map to change — blending the heart, mind and body to change how we relate to ourselves, bring authenticity, connect with others, and lead in the workplace.”—Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real Change
 
“Boundless Leadership builds an understanding that leadership comes from within, that each of us can impact positive change in ourselves, our organizations, our personal lives, even the world. It doesn’t stop there, the book gives practical methods to shift thinking and behavior to achieve success. I cannot help but think how helpful this work would have been for my younger self.”—Beth Shapiro, Executive Director, Citymeals on Wheels
 
“There has never been a more ‘appropriate’ time for this book. Leaders today struggle to transform as they are defined by archaic stereotypes and presented with conventional approaches for improvement. Boundless Leadership delivers a path for those ready for self exploration and to begin their own personal journeys of transformation. The practical methods offered by Elazar and Joe apply to the leaders in all of us and transcend our personal and professional lives. The future of authentic and empathetic leadership starts here. For those who embrace it, the positive impact in your lives, organizations, communities and the world are endless.”—Fiona Bruder, President, Americas, George P. Johnson Experience Marketing
 
“Boundless Leadership is a deeply comprehensive and science-backed manifesto for enlightened leadership — an essential manual for leaders, change-makers and anyone who wants to make a difference and develop their full potential.”—Emma Seppälä, PhD, author of The Happiness Track
 
“We take as a given that professional athletes practice their sport based on years of research into the optimal way to build muscle, skill, and motivation. Boundless Leadership is the ‘training manual’ for professional leaders, combining neuroscience and psychology to provide pragmatic and effective skill development that will have a huge impact on you and your organization.”—Brian O’Kelley, Serial Entrepreneur, Technologist, and Angel Investor

“Joe and Elazar have written a book that isn’t just another leadership manual that offers new wrapping for the same old concepts of how to lead. This book is a guide for how to shift your whole being to uncover the compassionate wise leader within you. They lay out a clear and actionable plan for training the mind, body and heart and I am certain it will help all those who read it find the boundless potential they might not have even known they possess.”—Erin L. Olivo, PhD, MPH. Co-Founder and Executive Clinical Director, Center for Wise Mind Living 
 
“Boundless Leadership uses the latest findings in science and a finely engineered architecture along with tools and practices to guide you on a journey of transformation.  If you do just some of the work, expect a massive shift in your leadership, of self and others.”—Elena Grinev, head of Solution Delivery, Shell New Energies

“If you would like to dive deeper in your capacity to practice and embody compassionate leadership, Boundless Leadership is for you. Joe Loizzo and Elazar Aslan show us a path to move from the default survival mode of our distant ancestors to the thriving mind required of compassionate leaders to cultivate a more equitable, sustainable, and healthy world.”—Center for Compassionate Leadership

“Exceptionally insightful, ‘real world’ practical, and inspiringly motivational, Boundless Leadership is an extraordinary and recommended addition to personal, professional, community, corporate, college, and university library Business Management collections.”—Midwest Book Review

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