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Executive Toughness: the Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance

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ISBN-10: 0071786783

ISBN-13: 9780071786782

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jason Selk

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Build your mental “muscles” to achieve any business goalPeople with inborn talent may be good at what they do—but only the mentally tough reach the highest plateaus in their field. And here’s the best news of all: mental toughness is something anyone can learn.Director of mental training for the St. Louis Cardinals and a top-tier executive coach, Jason Selk knows everything there is to know about developing the mental toughness required for achieving any goal in you set for yourself. In fact, the techniques he outlines in this book are the same ones he used to help the Cardinals defeat the heavily favored Detroit Tigers in the 2006 World Series.Based on the vision of legendary…    
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Book details

List price: $46.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (Australia) Pty Limited
Publication date: 11/3/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.80" wide x 8.50" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Mental Toughness: Potentially the Difference between Life and Death
Foundation of Mental Toughness
What You Want and You Are
Define Your Win
Determine Your Purpose and Priorities
Turn Up Your Thermostat
Heat Up Your Performance
Developing Executive Toughness Characteristic 1
Accountability: Doing What Needs to Be Done
The Process of Achievement
Goals That Really Work
Prioritizing the Priorities
Schedule It or Forget It
Accountability Through Self-Evaluation
Learn to Look in the Mirror Every Day
Developing Executing Toughness Characteristic 2
Focus: Improving Execution and Consistency
Preparation
Control Your Emotions, Control Your Performance
Script Your Way to Focus
Always Say the Right Thing
The Mental Workout
100 Seconds a Day Keeps Failure Away
Developing Executing Toughness Characteristic 3
Optimism: Overcoming All Obstacles
Relentless Solution Focus
The Ultimate Measure of Mental Toughness
Gable Discipline
Optimism Through Unremitting Action
Conclusion
The Minimum Requirements for Greatness
Notes
Index