The Health Conscious Leader

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER! From Whole Foods CEO John Mackey and his coauthors, a follow-up to groundbreaking bestseller Conscious Capitalism—revealing what it takes to lead a purpose-driven, sustainable business. John Mackey started a movement when he founded Whole Foods, bringing natural, organic food to the masses and not only changing the market, but breaking the mold. Now, for the first time, Conscious Leadership closely explores the vision, virtues, and mindset that have informed Mackey’s own leadership journey, providing a roadmap for innovative, value-based leadership—in business and in society. Conscious Leadership demystifies strategies that have helped Mackey shepherd Whole Foods through four decades of incredible growth and innovation, including its recent sale to Amazon. Each chapter will challenge you to rethink conventional business wisdom through anecdotes, case studies, profiles of conscious leaders, and innovative techniques for self-development, culminating in an empowering call to action for entrepreneurs and trailblazers—to step up as leaders who see beyond the bottom line.

This is NOT your typical health book. We're not going to talk about counting calories or what specific exercises you should perform. My focus is different. I wrote this short book to remind every visionary of three things: 1. OUR SOCIETY NEEDS YOU 2. YOU HAVE AN ASSIGNMENT TO COMPLETE 3. YOU MUST MAKE YOUR HEALTH A PRIORITY Leadership is the most important position on earth. No societal progress happens without a leader spearheading that change. Good physical health is the engine of leadership, and the energy it generates is the fuel we use to make a difference. This book will emphasize one critical point: The significance of your visionary assignment demands that your health become a priority. Once you understand how significant your visionary assignment is to the world and how your health effects the execution of that assignment, you will naturally begin to make better health choices. You will learn: - The chief responsibly of a visionary leader - How to discover your visionary assignment - Why your visionary assignment is so important to the world - Why leaders must be proactive about maintaining their personal health - Why ignoring your health could lead to the early termination of your vision - The three critical beliefs that form the mindset of a Health-Conscious leader *This is book #3 in The Visionary Library Series - An ongoing series of books dedicated to helping visionary leaders create positive change in the world

You'll never see leadership the same way again after reading this book. These fifteen commitments are a distillation of decades of work with CEOs and other leaders. They are radical or provocative for many. They have been game changers for us and for our clients. We trust that they will be for you too. Our experience is that unconscious leadership is not sustainable. It won't work for you, your team or your organization in the long term. Unconscious leadership can deliver short term results, but the costs of living and leading unconsciously are great. Fear drives most leaders to make choices that are at odds with healthy relationships, vitality and balance. This fear leaves a toxic residue that won't be as easily tolerated in an increasingly complex business environment. Conscious leadership offers the antidote to fear. These pages contain a comprehensive road map to guide you to shift from fear-based to trust-based leadership. Once you learn and start practicing conscious leadership you'll get results in the form of more energy, clarity, focus and healthier relationships. You'll do more and more of what you are passionate about, and less of what you do out of obligation. You'll have more fun, be happier, experience less drama and be more on purpose. Your team will get results as well. They'll be more collaborative, creative, energized and engaged. They'll solve issues faster, and once resolved the issues won't resurface. Drama and gossip will all but disappear, and the energy and resources that fueled them will be redirected towards innovation and creativity. Any one of these commitments will change your life. All of them together are revolutionary. Leaders who practice the 15 commitments: - End blame and criticism - Speak candidly, openly and honestly, in a way that invites others to do the same - Find their unique genius - Let go of taking everything-especially themselves and their problems-so seriously - Create win for all solutions - Experience a new relationship to time and money where there is always enough What do you need to bring to the table? Be curious. Sounds so simple, and yet in our experience it's a skill few have mastered. Most of us are far more interested in being right and proving it, than we are in learning, growing and shifting out of our old patterns. By default we gravitate towards the familiar. We're asking you to take a chance and explore the unfamiliar. You'll get scared and reactive. We all do. So what? Just stay curious and let us introduce you to a whole new world of leadership.

“Ayelet Baron is fierce with faith that to buck the system and trust our hearts is an act of radical self-care. Forget fear, frustration, formulas and false beliefs. Find fortitude within these pages to follow your heart to a more fulfilling, health future. Full of provocative questions and expeditions, F*ck the Bucket List for the Health Conscious will reframe your sense of what’s possible for yourself and our collective courageous future.” —Shelly L. Francis, author of The Courage Way and Founder, Creative Courage Press You are being invited to the biggest transformation on the planet today and it’s up to you to take the first steps. You may not know where you’re headed, but you’re becoming more coura-geous and curious to experience life and all it has to offer. When you are health conscious, you become a dynamic creator of your life. You can no longer afford to sit back passively and complain or blame the world or anyone outside yourself for your problems. Why? Because you can no longer be satisfied with the world the way it is now. You consciously choose to step out of being told how to live your life. F*ck the Bucket List for the Health Conscious serves as a wake-up call for anyone who is no longer satisfied with the way things are, and an inspiration to anyone who is trekking into the unknown. There’s no going back when you’re walking through a gateway of awareness. You can easily lead yourself into a healthy world of possibilities. You are already on your way if you’re engag-ing with this trilogy. The rest is in your hands. What if by tapping into your heart you’re already here, and you allow yourself to play and experiment as a health-conscious creator? What then? What’s whispering to you? Are you ready to listen?

What does it take to be a leader of the future? There's a new breed of leader on the block: leaders who see themselves, their employees, their competition and the world completely differently. They run their companies uniquely and they are flourishing in a world that's increasingly interconnected and waking up - and this demands a new approach. These leaders are Conscious Leaders. Is this leader you? In this book you will learn: How to practise conscious self-mastery How to consciously relate to others How to ensure your team are bringing their full selves to work How to ignite passion and spark innovative energy What collaboration beyond competition really looks like How to increase your positive impact on the world How to find purpose beyond profit This book guides you towards the abundance that is conscious leadership, helping you to develop an attitude of generosity in a universe of possibility."

This Conscious Leadership book is a gift to every individual, leader and organisation dedicated to creating a life that is greater than what they now have, and to making a difference in the world. It is an invitation for those people who choose to be more conscious in their leadership, with an emphasis that no particular way is right or wrong. The book is a creation of Chutisa Bowman and Steven Bowman with major contribution from Gary Douglas, based on a foundation of expanded consciousness and business experience that provides transformational tools that can unlock and open doors for leaders to be more conscious. This book empowers leaders to become conscious of and shift any part of their reality that isn't working. It shows leaders how to make the personal journey towards becoming powerful and conscious leaders. This book has been created to convey at a macro level the tools for all leaders and businesses endeavoring to become more conscious. The writing of this book has been a joyful and expansive experience and we trust that you will find something that relates to your own personal situation. Authors of "Prosperity Consciousness" and "Leading from the Edge of Possibility: No More Business As Usual"

The bestselling book, now with a new preface by the authors At once a bold defense and reimagining of capitalism and a blueprint for a new system for doing business, Conscious Capitalism is for anyone hoping to build a more cooperative, humane, and positive future. Whole Foods Market cofounder John Mackey and professor and Conscious Capitalism, Inc. cofounder Raj Sisodia argue that both business and capitalism are inherently good, and they use some of today’s best-known and most successful companies to illustrate their point. From Southwest Airlines, UPS, and Tata to Costco, Panera, Google, the Container Store, and Amazon, today’s organizations are creating value for all stakeholders—including customers, employees, suppliers, investors, society, and the environment. Read this book and you’ll better understand how four specific tenets—higher purpose, stakeholder integration, conscious leadership, and conscious culture and management—can help build strong businesses, move capitalism closer to its highest potential, and foster a more positive environment for all of us.

This book aims at exploring the link between corporate and organizational culture, public and private policies, leadership and managerial skills or attitudes, and the successful implementation of work-related healthcare in Europe. Therefore it brings together a wide range of empirical and theoretical contributions from occupational health, management, psychology, medicine, economics, and (organizational) sociology to address the question of how to sustainably promote occupational health. Such important questions are explored as: What aspects of a corporate culture can be associated with health issues? How does leadership style affect the health of employees? How are health-related decisions in the workplace affected by the political environment? To what extent are interventions influenced by corporate culture, leadership and public policy? How can we make such interventions sustainable?