Executive leadership: A rational approach

For almost thirty years Dr. Albert Ellis has been one of the world's busiest psychotherapists and marriage and family counselors. During the last two decades he has authored some thirty books as well as numerous articles on various aspects of psychology as well as sex and love relations. He has given hundreds of lectures and appeared scored of radio and TV programs. Dr. Ellis also heads two non-profit Institutes: The Institute for Rational Living, Inc. and the Institute for Advanced Study in Rational Psychotherapy. Over the years, Dr. Ellis has treated many business executives. He has found that many of these leaders of industry and government have deep-seated vocational business problems. This book is basically Dr. Ellis' presentation of how life may be made easier and less complex for the executive leader through Rational Sensitivity. Rational Sensitivity simply means employing your thinking and your emoting so that you become more and more sensitive to and perceptive of your own and others' failings while at the same time becoming less vulnerable, less condemning when you or they display these failings. Rational Sensitivity is tolerance, flexibility, open-mindedness. It is the ability to do your own authentic thing and let others do theirs without condemnation when those things turn out to be foolish, mistaken, or self-defeating. Dr, Ellis deals with the pressures and blocks which prevent the executive from coping to his own satisfaction with the inanities and insanities of the organizational world. And he has evolved a system to help the executive marshal his brains, talent and knowledge to their most effective use. This book will be an enormous help to those in positions of authority and decision-making who find themselves frequently assailed by self-doubt and inertia. It is a book designed to hep the executive cut his way through emotional problems and operate both his business day and his personal life with minimum stress and maximum satisfaction.