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The Leader's Guide to Mindfulness

Audrey Tang

Lead with greater focus and compassion through mindfulness practices that improve decisions, communication, resilience, and team performance.

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The Leader's Guide to Mindfulness

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What's it about?

The Leader's Guide to Mindfulness (2018) shows how mindfulness can help leaders make better decisions, manage pressure, and lead with greater clarity and compassion. Audrey Tang offers short, practical exercises that fit into a busy working day, along with research on how attention and awareness affect performance. The book explains how mindful leaders can build calmer, more focused, and more resilient teams.

Key ideas

  • Mindfulness can help leaders make better decisions by sharpening attention and awareness in the moment.
  • Audrey Tang offers short, practical exercises that fit into a busy working day.
  • Mindfulness gives leaders a way to manage pressure and keep their clarity when demands rise.
  • Leading with compassion is presented as part of effective leadership, not a distraction from results.
  • Mindful leaders can help build calmer, more focused and more resilient teams.

About the author

Audrey Tang is a British chartered psychologist, author, and broadcaster who specialises in wellbeing, resilience, and leadership. She works with organisations to support mental fitness at work, and her other books include The Leader’s Guide to Resilience.

Questions people ask

Who is The Leader's Guide to Mindfulness for?

It is written for leaders and managers who want to make better decisions, handle pressure and communicate more clearly. Its exercises are short enough to fit into a busy working day.

What is the main idea of The Leader's Guide to Mindfulness?

Audrey Tang argues that mindfulness helps leaders focus, stay calm and lead with compassion, which in turn improves decisions and team performance.

How long is the Durar summary of this book?

The Durar summary takes about 15 minutes to read or listen to. It covers the book's main ideas and practical exercises for leaders.

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