The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower

The Anxious Achiever is a book that aims to normalize anxiety and leadership, offering practical advice and personal stories to help individuals recognize and avoid thought traps and triggers, confront bad habits and unhealthy coping mechanisms, resist perfectionism, manage social anxiety, set boundaries, deal with feedback, criticism, and impostor syndrome, and love and lead with their complex brains.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 11 April 2023
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Named one of the ten Best New Management books of the year by Thinkers50, The Anxious Achiever by Morra Aarons-Mele has been awarded the Axiom Award for 2023 Best Leadership Book. This book aims to normalize anxiety and leadership, arguing that anxiety is built into the nature of leadership and can be harnessed as a force for good. The book is filled with personal stories, research-based insights into mental health, and practical advice on how to recognize and avoid common thought traps and triggers, confront bad habits and unhealthy coping mechanisms, resist perfectionism, manage social anxiety, set boundaries to prevent burnout, deal with feedback, criticism, and impostor syndrome, and learn to love and lead with your complex brain. Whether you are experiencing anxiety for the first time or have been battling it for years, The Anxious Achiever will help you turn your stress and worries into a source of strength for yourself, your career, and the people you lead.

Weight: 560g
Dimension: 240 x 165 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781647822538