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Dr. Christopher P. Neck, PhD, is currently an associate professor of Management at Arizona State University, where he held the title "University Master Teacher." From 1994 to 2009, he was part of the Pamplin College of Business faculty at Virginia Tech. He received his PhD in Management from Arizona State University and his MBA from Louisiana State University. Neck is author and/or coauthor of 27 books, including Self-Leadership: The Definitive Guide to Personal Excellence (1st ed., 2017, Sage; 2nd ed., 2019, Sage); Get a Kick Out of Life: Expect the Best of Your Body, Mind, and Soul at Any Age (2017, Clovercroft Publishing); Fit to Lead: The Proven 8-week Solution for Shaping Up Your Body, Your Mind, and Your Career (1st ed., 2004, St. Martin's Press; 2nd ed., 2012, Carpenter's Sons Publishing); Mastering Self-Leadership: Empowering Yourself for Personal Excellence, 6th ed. (2013, Pearson); The Wisdom of Solomon at Work (2001, Berrett-Koehler); For Team Members Only: Making Your Workplace Team Productive and Hassle-Free (1997, Amacom Books); and Medicine for the Mind: Healing Words to Help You Soar, 4th ed. (Wiley, 2012). Neck is also the coauthor of the principles of management textbook, Management: A Balanced Approach to the 21st Century (1st ed., 2013, Wiley; 2nd ed., 2017, Wiley; 3rd ed. 2021, Sage); an introduction to entrepreneurship textbook, Entrepreneurship (1st ed., 2017, Sage; 2nd ed., 2020, Sage); an introduction to organizational behavior textbook, Organizational Behavior (1st ed., 2017, Sage; 2nd ed., 2019, Sage), and an introduction to business textbook (Introduction to Business, 2022, Sage). Dr. Neck's research specialties include employee/executive fitness, self-leadership, leadership, group decision-making processes, and self-managing teams. He has over 150 publications in the form of books, chapters, and articles in various journals. Some of the outlets in which Neck's work has appeared include Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, The Journal of Organizational Behavior, The Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, The Journal of Managerial Psychology, Executive Excellence, Human Relations, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Journal of Leadership Studies, Educational Leadership, and The Commercial Law Journal. Neck is the deputy editor of the Journal of Leadership and Management. Due to Neck's expertise in management, he has been cited in numerous national publications including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Houston Chronicle, and the Chicago Tribune. Dr. Neck was recently voted as a semi-finalist (out of 140 nominations) for the prestigious international 2020 Baylor University Cherry Award for Great Teaching. He finished in the top 6 of all nominations. Neck was also the recipient of the 2007 Business Week Favorite Professor Award. He is featured on www .businessweek.com as one of the approximately 20 professors from across the world receiving this award. Dr. Neck has taught over 70,000 students during his career in higher education. Neck currently teaches a mega section of Management Principles to approximately 900 students at Arizona State University. Neck was the recipient of the 2020 John W. Teets Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award (voted by W.P Carey students). Neck also received the Order of Omega Outstanding Teaching Award for 2012. This award is awarded to 1 professor at Arizona State by the Alpha Lamda Chapter of this leadership fraternity. His class sizes at Virginia Tech filled rooms up to 2500 students. He received numerous teaching awards during his tenure at Virginia Tech, including the 2002 Wine Award for Teaching Excellence. Also, Neck was the 10-time winner (1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009) of the Students' Choice Teacher of the Year Award (voted by the students for the best teacher of the year within the entire university). Also, some of the organizations who have participated in Neck's management development training include Anavate Partners, Mountainside Fitness, GE/Toshiba, Busch Gardens, Clark Construction, the United States Army, Crestar, American Family Insurance, Sales and Marketing Executives International, American Airlines, American Electric Power, W. L. Gore & Associates, Dillard's Department Stores, and Prudential Life Insurance. Neck is also an avid runner. He has completed 12 official marathons and over 100 unofficial ones, including the Boston Marathon, New York City Marathon, and the San Diego Marathon. In fact, his personal record for a single long-distance run is a 48-mile run. Charles C. Manz, Ph.D. is a speaker, consultant, and bestselling author of over 200 articles and scholarly papers and more than 20 books including Mastering Self-Leadership, 6th ed.; The New SuperLeadership; Share, Don't Take the Lead; The Power of Failure; Fit to Lead; Business Without Bosses; The Leadership Wisdom of Jesus, 3rd ed.; Foreword Magazine best book-of-the-year Gold Award winner Emotional Discipline; Stybel-Peabody National Book prize winning SuperLeadership, and the forthcoming Self-Leadership: The Definitive Guide to Personal Excellence. His work has been featured on radio and television and in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, U.S. News & World Report, Success, Psychology Today, Fast Company and several other national publications. He is the Nirenberg Chaired Professor of Leadership in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Formerly a Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School his clients have included 3M, Ford, Xerox, General Motors, P&G, American Express, the Mayo Clinic, Banc One, the U.S. and Canadian governments, and many others. Dr. Jeffery D. Houghton completed his PhD in management at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) and is currently a professor of management at West Virginia University. Dr. Houghton has taught college-level business courses at Virginia Tech, Abilene Christian University (TX), Lipscomb University (TN), The International University (Vienna, Austria), and the U.S. Justice Department Federal Bureau of Prisons. Prior to pursuing a full-time career in academics, he worked in the banking industry as a loan officer and branch manager. A member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Dr. Houghton's research specialties include human behavior, motivation, personality, leadership, and self-leadership. Dr. Houghton has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and his work has been cited approximately 5,000 times in academic journals. He currently teaches undergraduate, masters, and doctoral level courses in management, OB, and leadership. Dr. Houghton was named the 2013 Beta Gamma Sigma Professor of the Year for the John Chambers College of Business and Economics, awarded annually to one faculty member within the college as selected by a vote of the student members of Beta Gamma Sigma, and he received the 2008 Outstanding Teaching Award for the John Chambers College of Business and Economics, awarded annually to one faculty member for outstanding teaching. In addition to his research and teaching activities, Dr. Houghton has done consulting and conducted training seminars for companies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, and the Bruce hardwood flooring company. In his spare time, Dr. Houghton enjoys traveling, classic mystery novels, racquetball, and snow skiing. Finally, Dr. Houghton has completed two marathons, the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, DC, and the Dallas White Rock Marathon.

Preface Acknowledgments About the Authors 1. An Introduction to Self-Leadership: The Journey Begins Leadership Sources of Leadership We All Lead Ourselves Self-Leadership 2. The Context of Self-Leadership: Mapping the Route Conceptual Foundations of Self-Leadership External Factors Personal Factors We Do Choose 3. Behavior-Focused Strategies: Overcoming Rough Roads, Detours, and Roadblocks World-Altering Behavior-Focused Strategies Self-Imposed Behavior-Focused Strategies 4. Natural Reward-Focused Strategies: Scenic Views, Sunshine, and the Joys of Traveling Natural Rewards What Makes Activities Naturally Rewarding? Tapping the Power of Natural Rewards Combining External and Natural Rewards 5. Constructive Thought-Focused Strategies: Developing a Travel Mind-Set Our Psychological Worlds Is There Power in Positive Thinking? Evaluating Beliefs and Assumptions Mental Practice Thought Patterns Opportunity or Obstacle Thinking The Power of Failure 6. Team Self-Leadership: Sharing the Journey Self-Leadership and Teams Behavioral Aspects of Team Self-Leadership Mental Aspects of Team Self-Leadership Team Self-Leadership Still Means Individual Self-Leadership Balancing the "Me" with the "We" Groupthink versus Teamthink 7. Self-Leadership, Health, and Well-Being: Maintaining Physical and Emotional Fitness on the Journey Self-Leadership and Fitness What Executives Say about the Importance of Fitness The Impact of Fitness on Job Performance Executive Fitness Behaviors at a Glance Exercise and Diet: The Keys to Fitness Self-Leadership, Fitness, and Personal Effectiveness Choosing How You Feel: Emotional Self-Leadership Emotional Intelligence and Self-Leadership Coping with Stress: Self-Leadership and Stress Management Optimism and Self-Leadership Happiness, Flow, and Self-Leadership 8. Individual Differences, Diversity, and Practical Applications: Multiple Paths to Uniqueness Personality and Self-Leadership Diversity and Self-Leadership Applications in Athletics Applications in Work/Organizational Situations 9. Reaching the Destination: But the Journey Continues . . . A Self-Leadership Framework A Tale of Self-Leadership The Tale in Perspective Personal Effectiveness Some Additional Thoughts Notes Index