The Surprisingly Simple Cure for a Case of the Mondays

Below, Amy Leneker shares five key insights from her new book, Cheers to Monday: The Surprisingly Simple Method to Lead and Live with Less Stress and More Joy.

Amy is founder and CEO of the Center for Joyful Work. She has helped more than 100,000 leaders and teams, including those at Fortune 100 companies, lead with less stress and more joy. With more than 25 years of leadership experience, including a decade in the C-suite, she has studied leadership at Yale, neuroscience at the NeuroLeadership Institute and stress resilience at Harvard Medical School. She leads the annual national workforce study, The State of Stress and Joy at Work, and hosts the Less Stress, More Joy with Amy Leneker podcast.

What’s the big idea?

Our jobs feel so overwhelming because stress is built into how work is designed. Once you learn to recognize and respond to different kinds of stress—and stop blaming yourself—you can feel better and perform better at the same time.

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