Managing Executive Health: Personal and Corporate Strategies for Sustained Success

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

• ISBN13: 9780521688642
• ISBN10: 0521688647
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-21
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The health of managers, executives, and business leaders has a massive impact on the performance and prospects of modern organizations. If health problems are not tackled, people become less productive, less effective, and more destructive. It is clear that business leaders and human resource professionals cannot afford to ignore the impact of work-related health issues on company performance. Yet even acknowledging this fact still leaves us with a choice over how to proceed. Should we try to minimize those risks that typically lead to health problems or seek to strengthen executive health? While recognising that identifying health risks is the first step in any preventive health program, Managing Executive Health argues for a positive approach, which emphasizes physical vigour, psychological well-being, spiritual vitality, and ethical integrity. Key issues are illustrated throughout with case studies of high-profile figures from the worlds of business and politics.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. viii
List of tables	p. ix
List of spotlights	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Foreword	p. xiii
Executive Health: competition and performance	p. 1
The Achilles' heel: risk and vulnerability	p. 20
Loneliness at the top	p. 44
Work demands and travel	p. 61
Professional crisis and personal tragedy	p. 82
Executive women	p. 99
Physical health	p. 117
Psychological well-being	p. 140
Spiritual vitality	p. 161
Ethical character	p. 177
A secure base for performing and achieving	p. 193
Bibliography	p. 211
Index	p. 228
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