Self-leadership

Written by the scholars who first developed the theory of self-leadership, Self-Leadership: The Definitive Guide to Personal Excellence by Christopher P. Neck, Charles C. Manz, and Jeffery D. Houghton offers powerful yet practical advice for leading oneself to personal excellence. Grounded in the most recently published, cutting-edge self-leadership research, this milestone book is based on a simple yet revolutionary principle: first learn to lead yourself, and you will then be able to effectively lead others. This inclusive approach to self-motivation and self-influence equips readers with the strategies and tips they need to build a strong foundation in the study of management, as well as enhancing their own personal effectiveness. The updated Second Edition resonates with today's students by featuring contemporary examples and showcasing a greater degree of diversity throughout.

New to this Edition Self-Leadership Research features have been updated or replaced to offer the most up-to-date, cutting-edge research, exposing students to timely developments in the field.
Real-World Self-Leadership Cases and new Profiles in Self-Leadership are updated to feature new, contemporary personalities that will resonate with today's diverse students, with more cases featuring women and/or people of color.
Self-Leadership in the Movies features have been updated to reflect contemporary people and movies that showcase a greater degree of diversity, offering students relatable, exciting examples to keep them engaged.
All in-text examples and supporting citations have been updated.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. An Introduction to Self-Leadership: The Journey Begins
Leadership
Sources of Leadership
We All Lead Ourselves
Self-Leadership
2. The Context of Self-Leadership: Mapping the Route
Conceptual Foundations of Self-Leadership
External Factors
Personal Factors
We Do Choose
3. Behavior-Focused Strategies: Overcoming Rough Roads, Detours, and Roadblocks
World-Altering Behavior-Focused Strategies
Self-Imposed Behavior-Focused Strategies
4. Natural Reward-Focused Strategies: Scenic Views, Sunshine, and the Joys of Traveling
Natural Rewards
What Makes Activities Naturally Rewarding?
Tapping the Power of Natural Rewards
Combining External and Natural Rewards
5. Constructive Thought-Focused Strategies: Developing a Travel Mind-Set
Our Psychological Worlds
Is There Power in Positive Thinking?
Evaluating Beliefs and Assumptions
Mental Practice
Thought Patterns
Opportunity or Obstacle Thinking
The Power of Failure
6. Team Self-Leadership: Sharing the Journey
Self-Leadership and Teams
Behavioral Aspects of Team Self-Leadership
Mental Aspects of Team Self-Leadership
Team Self-Leadership Still Means Individual Self-Leadership
Balancing the "Me" with the "We"
Groupthink versus Teamthink
7. Self-Leadership, Health, and Well-Being: Maintaining Physical and Emotional Fitness on the Journey
Self-Leadership and Fitness
What Executives Say about the Importance of Fitness
The Impact of Fitness on Job Performance
Executive Fitness Behaviors at a Glance
Exercise and Diet: The Keys to Fitness
Self-Leadership, Fitness, and Personal Effectiveness
Choosing How You Feel: Emotional Self-Leadership
Emotional Intelligence and Self-Leadership
Coping with Stress: Self-Leadership and Stress Management
Optimism and Self-Leadership
Happiness, Flow, and Self-Leadership
8. Individual Differences, Diversity, and Practical Applications: Multiple Paths to Uniqueness
Personality and Self-Leadership
Diversity and Self-Leadership
Applications in Athletics
Applications in Work/Organizational Situations
9. Reaching the Destination: But the Journey Continues . . .
A Self-Leadership Framework
A Tale of Self-Leadership
The Tale in Perspective
Personal Effectiveness
Some Additional Thoughts
Notes
Index

About the author

Dr. Christopher P. Neck is currently a Professor of Management at Arizona State University, where he held the title “University Master Teacher.” From 1994 to 2009, he was part of the Pamplin College of Business faculty at Virginia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in Management from Arizona State University and his M.B.A. from Louisiana State University. Neck is author and/or coauthor of thirty books including Self-Leadership: The Definitive Guide to Personal Excellence (1^st Edition, 2017, Sage Publishers; 2^nd Edition, 2019); Get a Kick Out of Life: Expect the Best of Your Body, Mind, and Soul at Any Age (2017, Clovercroft Publishing); Fit To Lead: The Proven 8-week Solution for Shaping Up Your Body, Your Mind, and Your Career (2004, St. Martin′s Press; 2012, Carpenter’s Sons Publishing); Mastering Self-Leadership: Empowering Yourself for Personal Excellence, 6^th edition (2013, Pearson); The Wisdom of Solomon at Work (2001, Berrett-Koehler); For Team Members Only: Making Your Workplace Team Productive and Hassle-Free (1997, Amacom Books); and Medicine for the Mind: Healing Words to Help You Soar, 4^th Edition (Wiley, 2012).  Neck is also the coauthor of the principles of management textbook, Management: A Balanced Approach to the 21^st Century (Wiley: 2013, Wiley: 2017-2^nd Edition, Sage: 2021-3^rd Edition); an introductory to entrepreneurship textbook, Entrepreneurship, (Sage, 2017; 2^nd edition, 2020; 3^rd edition, 2023); an introductory to organizational behavior textbook, Organizational Behavior (1^st Edition-Sage, 2017; 2^nd Edition-Sage, 2019; 3^rd Edition-Sage, 2023), and an Introduction to Business textbook (Introduction to Business, Sage, 2022).  In total, his textbooks have been adopted by 800 colleges/universities and used by over 120,000 students.

Dr. Neck’s research specialties include employee/executive fitness, self-leadership, leadership, group decision-making processes, and self-managing teams. He has over 150 publications in the form of books, chapters, and articles in various journals. Some of the outlets in which Neck’s work has appeared include The Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, The Journal of Organizational Behavior, The Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, The Journal of Managerial Psychology, Executive Excellence, Human Relations, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Journal of Leadership Studies, Educational Leadership, and The Commercial Law Journal.

Dr. Neck is the Deputy Editor of the journal, the Journal of Leadership and Management. Due to Neck’s expertise in management, he has been cited in numerous national publications including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Houston Chronicle, and the Chicago Tribune.

Dr. Neck was recently voted as a semi-finalist (out of 140 nominations) for the prestigious international 2020 Baylor University Cherry Award for Great Teaching.   He finished in the top six of all nominations.  Neck was also the recipient of the 2007 Business Week Favorite Professor Award”. He is featured on www.businessweek.com as one of the approximately twenty professors from across the world receiving this award. 
Dr. Neck has taught over 80,000 students during his career in higher education. Neck currently teaches a mega section of Management Principles to approximately 900 students at Arizona State University. Neck was the recipient of the 2024 and 2020 John W. Teets Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award (voted by W.P Carey School of Business students).  He also received the 2024 Huizingh Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher Award within the W.P Carey School. Neck also received the Order of Omega Outstanding Teaching Award for 2012.  This award is awarded to one professor at Arizona State by the Alpha Lamda Chapter of this leadership fraternity. His class sizes at Virginia Tech filled rooms up to 2500 students. He received numerous teaching awards during his tenure at Virginia Tech, including the 2002 Wine Award for Teaching Excellence. Also, Neck was the ten-time winner (1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009) of the “Students’ Choice Teacher of The Year Award” (voted by the students for the best teacher of the year within the entire university). Also, some of the organizations who have participated in Neck′s management development training include Anavate Partners, Mountainside Fitness, GE/Toshiba, Busch Gardens, Clark Construction, the United States Army, Crestar, American Family Insurance, Sales and Marketing Executives International, American Airlines, American Electric Power, W. L. Gore & Associates, Dillard′s Department Stores, and Prudential Life Insurance.  Neck is also an avid runner. He has completed 12 official marathons and over 100 unofficial ones, including the Boston Marathon, New York City Marathon, and the San Diego Marathon.  In fact, his personal record for a single long-distance run—is a 48-mile run.Charles C. Manz, Ph.D. is a speaker, consultant, and bestselling author of over 200 articles and scholarly papers and more than 20 books including Mastering Self-Leadership, 6^th ed.; The New SuperLeadership; Share, Don’t Take the Lead; The Power of Failure; Fit to Lead; Business Without Bosses; The Leadership Wisdom of Jesus, 3^rd ed.; Foreword Magazine best book-of-the-year Gold Award winner Emotional Discipline; Stybel-Peabody National Book prize winning SuperLeadership, and the forthcoming Self-Leadership: The Definitive Guide to Personal Excellence. His work has been featured on radio and television and in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, U.S. News & World Report, Success, Psychology Today, Fast Company and several other national publications. He is the Nirenberg Chaired Professor of Leadership in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Formerly a Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School his clients have included 3M, Ford, Xerox, General Motors, P&G, American Express, the Mayo Clinic, Banc One, the U.S. and Canadian governments, and many others.

Dr. Jeffery D. Houghton completed his PhD in management at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) and is currently a professor of management at West Virginia University. Dr. Houghton has taught college-level business courses at Virginia Tech, Abilene Christian University (TX), Lipscomb University (TN), The International University (Vienna, Austria), and the U.S. Justice Department Federal Bureau of Prisons. Prior to pursuing a full-time career in academics, he worked in the banking industry as a loan officer and branch manager.

A member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Dr. Houghton’s research specialties include human behavior, motivation, personality, leadership, and self-leadership. Dr. Houghton has published more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and books, and his work has been cited more than 9,000 times in academic journals. He currently teaches undergraduate, masters, and doctoral level courses in management, OB, and leadership. Dr. Houghton was named the 2013 Beta Gamma Sigma Professor of the Year for the John Chambers College of Business and Economics, awarded annually to one faculty member within the college as selected by a vote of the student members of Beta Gamma Sigma, and he received the 2008 Outstanding Teaching Award for the John Chambers College of Business and Economics, awarded annually to one faculty member for outstanding teaching.
In addition to his research and teaching activities, Dr. Houghton has done consulting and conducted training seminars for companies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, and the Bruce hardwood flooring company. In his spare time, Dr. Houghton enjoys traveling, classic mystery novels, racquetball, and snow skiing. Finally, Dr. Houghton has completed two marathons, the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, DC, and the Dallas White Rock Marathon.

Product details

• Authors: Houghton, Jeffery D. Houghton, Jeffery D. D. Houghton, Houghton Jeffery D., Charles C. Manz, Charles C. C. Manz, Manz Charles C., Christopher P. Neck, Christopher P. P. Neck, Christopher P./ Manz Neck, Neck Christopher P.
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781544324302
• ISBN: 978-1-5443-2430-2
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; Lebenshilfe, Persönlichkeitsentwicklung und praktische Tipps, SELF-HELP / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General, Business / Economics / Finance, Self-help & personal development, Management & management techniques, Self-help, personal development and practical advice, Management and management techniques