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Managing Executive Health

The health of managers, executives, and business leaders has a massive impact on the performance and prospects of modern organizations. If health problems are not tackled, people become less productive, less effective, and more destructive. It is clear that business leaders and human resource professionals cannot afford to ignore the impact of work-related health issues on company performance. Yet even acknowledging this fact still leaves us with a choice over how to proceed. Should we try to minimize those risks that typically lead to health problems or seek to strengthen executive health? While recognising that identifying health risks is the first step in any preventive health program, Managing Executive Health argues for a positive approach, which emphasizes physical vigor, psychological well-being, spiritual vitality, and ethical integrity. Key issues are illustrated throughout with case studies of high-profile figures from the worlds of business and politics.

JAMES CAMPBELL QUICK is John and Judy Goolsby Distinguished Professor in the Goolsby Leadership Academy at The University of Texas at Arlington. Professor Quick has over 100 publications in ten languages and is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), the American Psychological Association (APA), and the American Institute of Stress (AIS). He was honored with The Legion of Merit (USAF) and 2002 Harry and Miriam Levinson Award for consulting with executives.

CARY L. COOPER is Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health and Pro-Vice Chancellor (External Relations) at Lancaster University. He is the author of over 100 books, Editor-in-Chief of the The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management and the editor of Who’s Who in the Management Sciences. Professor Cooper was awarded a CBE by the Queen in 2001¹ for his contribution to organizational health.

JOANNE H. GAVIN is Associate Professor of Management at Marist College. She has published in several leading journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Dynamics, Academy of Management Executive, Business and Society Review and Real Estate Law Journal. In addition she has authored chapters in From Knowledge to Intelligence (2004) and co-authored chapters in Corporate Retirement Security (2007), Organizational Behavior (2005), Psychology Builds a Healthy World (2003) and International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

JONATHAN D. QUICK is a family physician and public health management specialist. He is President and CEO of Management Sciences for Health, an international group dedicated to closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health. He is Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at Boston University School of Public Health and has been a fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine and The American College of Preventive Medicine.

Managing Executive Health

Building Strengths, Managing Risks

JAMES CAMPBELL QUICK
The University of Texas at Arlington

CARY L. COOPER
Lancaster University Management School

JOANNE H. GAVIN
Marist College

JONATHAN D. QUICK
Management Sciences for Health

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To Sheri Grimes Schember Quick
You are the wind beneath my wings,
that is why I soar higher than an eagle!

Jim C

In memory of my two friends
Prof. Sir Roland Smith and Sir Gareth Roberts
Their contributions to the world of work and science were
outstanding, But it took a toll

Cary

With love and gratitude to David Gavin,
My biggest fan,
most constructive critic
and very best friend

Joanne

In memory of my mentor and dear friend Dr. Robert Berg
Who nurtured excellence, achievement, and personal growth
in students and colleagues through positive encouragement,
thoughtful questioning, and kindhearted humor

Jono

List of figures		page viii
List of tables		ix
List of spotlights		vii
Acknowledgements		xii
Foreword		xiii
1	Executive health: competition and performance	1
2	The Achilles’ heel: risk and vulnerability	20
3	Loneliness at the top	44
4	Work demands and travel	61
5	Professional crisis and personal tragedy	82
6	Executive women	99
7	Physical health	117
8	Psychological well-being	140
9	Spiritual vitality	161
10	Ethical character	177
11	A secure base for performing and achieving	193
Bibliography		211
Index		228

Figures

Figure	1.1	Executive health model	page 12
Figure	2.1	Yerkes-Dodson law	22
Figure	4.1	A stress and health model	64
Figure	4.2	Workload-performance hypothesis	65
Figure	11.1	The balanced life	198
Figure	11.2	The life of strength	200
Figure	11.3	The life at risk	203

Tables

Table	2.1	How do you know if you are a workaholic?	page 29
Table	2.2	Executive health assessment	40
Table	4.1	Assumptions of the executive culture	74
Table	7.1	Hostile Attitude Scale (HAS)	124
Table	8.1	Adaptive and maladaptive behaviors	142
Table	8.2	High- and low-stress lifestyle	145
Table	8.3	The stress response versus the relaxation response	151
Table	8.4	Constructive self-talk	156

Spotlights

1.1	What price success? – Lee Thurburn, president, NetOffer, Inc. and founder, FlashNet Communications, Inc.	page 4
1.2	Ethical leadership – Rebecca Chopp, president, Colgate University	14
2.1	Radical changes . . . stress or challenge? – Patricia Russo, CEO, Alcatel-Lucent	23
2.2	Values give value – Stephen Green, group chairman and CEO, HSBC Holdings plc	42
3.1	A woman to watch – Indra Nooyi, president and CEO, PepsiCo	47
3.2	Diversity at the top – John W. Thompson, chairman and CEO, Symantec	57
4.1	A time for family – Brenda Barnes, Sara Lee	62
4.2	His own way – Sir Terry Leahy, Tesco	75
5.1	Helping those in harm’s way – Gerald Arpey, president and CEO, American Airlines	88
5.2	Near death experience – Len Roberts, former chairman and CEO, Radio Shack	95
6.1	Ahead of her time – Ebby Halliday, founder of Ebby Halliday Realtors	103
6.2	Unique strengths – Anne Mulcahy, CEO of Xerox Corporation	112
7.1	The Father of Aerobics – Kenneth H. Cooper, founder, president, and CEO, Cooper Aerobics Center	126
7.2	Piano to pumping iron – Condoleeza Rice, US Secretary of State	137
8.1	Promoting the well-being of humanity – Judith Rodin, president, The Rockefeller Foundation	148