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Robert K. Cooper, Ph.D., is the top-rated speaker in the Wyncom "Lessons in Leadership" program that features such leading business authors as Tom Peters, Ken Blanchard, & Stephen Covey, & reaches thousands of professionals & executives in cities across the country. D. Cooper has spent more than twenty years researching leadership, innovation, & the elements of individual & organizational success. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Publisher's Weekly Review
Cooper ( Health & Fitness Excellence ) here offers practical, sensible advice on how to build mental and physical stamina to cope with increased pressure of career and family in today's corporate world. The focus is on personal qualities rather than on the leadership and management skills emphasized by other self-help guides to alleviating stress in the workplace. Topics range from techniques to develop ``on-target communication'' to exercises to relieve tension headaches, build brain cells, improve vision and hearing, along with tips on diet and sleep. To avoid burnout, Cooper recommends cutting down on extra, self-imposed work hours in favor of time for self-renewal and simple pleasures like ``baking an exotic loaf of bread.'' (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
Cooper, author of Health and Fitness Excellence (Houghton, 1989), points out that in today's heavily competitive business environment, where companies often possess similar resources and the same technologies, it is people that make the difference. He applies his health and fitness principles to show how to get the best performance from those people. Much of his advice deals with eliminating or reducing stress and tension. He covers neuro-muscular stress, time stress, communications stress, decision-making stress, physical stress, and psychological stress, with much more detail than most authors who consider the same topics. Though tending toward jargon, Cooper, who holds a Ph.D. in health sciences and psychology, offers a helpful, thorough "business fitness" manual for the workplace of the 1990s. ~--David Rouse
