A timely, insightful, and essential guide to conquering workplace stress. Posen gives you the tools to stop harming your most valuable resource-- yourself.

FORGET EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT STRESS. If you're like most people, you probably think that stress is an inevitable part of life. The truth is: it's not. In a groundbreaking 30-year study, Dr. Derek Roger has discovered that everything we think we know about stress-and how we should "manage" it-is just plain wrong. STRESS IS A CHOICE. It is not a natural response to the pressures of work. It's a choice that you make, consciously or not, to worry...

"There is a force in our everyday lives that we aren't even aware of-and it's so powerful it threatens to derail otherwise promising careers and lives: microstress. It's the hidden epidemic of small moments of anxiety that infiltrate both our work and personal lives. Because each individual microstress is so small, it doesn't trigger the normal stress response in our brains to help us deal with it. Instead, the microstress just embeds in our minds,...

Toxic organizations are rife with conflict, fear and anger. The environment causes people to have physiological responses as if they're in a fight-or-flight situation. Healthy people become ill. Colds, flu and stress-related illnesses such as heart attacks are more common. By contrast, in resonant organizations, people take fewer sick days and turnover is low. People smile, make jokes, talk openly and help one another." - Annie McKee (author, consultant)...

"Work is stressful: We race to meet deadlines. We extend ourselves to return favors for colleagues. We set ambitious goals for ourselves and our teams. We measure ourselves against metrics, our competitors, and sometimes, our colleagues. Some of us even go beyond tangible metrics to internalize stress and fear of missing the mark-ruminating over presentations that didn't go according to plan, imagining worst-case scenarios, or standing frozen, paralyzed...

"A guide to reconciling career success with emotional well-being by employing strategies such as mindfulness, meditation, and reframing"--

Ricardo and Blanca are a happily married couple. Ricardo's career, however, is in a rut until a competitor woos him away to a coveted new position. What Ricardo doesn't anticipate are the challenges of a top-level management position. Suddenly, life's demands tax Ricardo and reward him with the ultimate letdown: erectile dysfunction! So begins the next phase of this couple's life together, navigating the ups and downs of both the business world and...

Workplace stress is not the weakness of individuals; it's caused by systemic problems. Armed with the insights in this book, you can identify, analyze, and systematically reduce the factors that lead to poor health, low productivity, and personal burnout. This book gives you a framework for understanding stress, and a vocabulary to make it easier to discuss it among colleagues. Stress can be fixed; find out how. The interviewer asks, "How well do...