Leading with joy

There's a myth that runs through the corporate world: that for results to happen, someone has to suffer. Marvio Portela has spent decades leading teams at multinational companies around the globe, building businesses from the ground up, and crossing finish lines in triathlons that pushed his body and mind to the limit. Along the way, he arrived at a conclusion that runs against almost everything the market preaches: The highest-performing teams aren't the ones living under constant pressure. They are the ones that learn to combine the need to deliver results with genuine joy, without confusing joy with comfort, or accountability with hostility. In this book, the author won't teach you how to be the nice guy, nor how to hit targets at any cost. The goal here is to show you how to do both at the same time, and why this is the only kind of leadership that sustains results over the long run. From the boardrooms of major corporations to the most demanding endurance races, he has learned that discipline without kindness breaks people, and kindness without discipline gets you nowhere. The central element of the leadership Portela believes in is what he calls joy, not as an emotion, but as a strategy. If you lead people, want to lead, or simply refuse to accept that growing as a leader has to hurt, this book was written for you.