PART II

The Roots of Healthy Leadership

Physical Health

Your physical health is vital to your role as a leader. We're talking not just about the absence of disease but the presence of health. You can't be an effective leader without paying attention to your body; it needs constant care and maintenance, just as your company does. We want you to get deeply in touch with your amazing body, including all its imperfections.

Your body can do remarkable things: It can repair itself, when bones knit together after a break or when the brain rewires after the nervous system is damaged. Organs can coordinate lifesaving activity, as happens with the respiratory and cardiovascular systems. It can tell you when it has been compromised, as happens with infection. ...

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