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The Executive Condition (The Hidden Health Crisis of High-Performing Leaders)
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Product Details
Author:
Denis Cronson
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
528
Publisher:
Forefront Books (September 1, 2026)
Imprint:
Forefront Books
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781637635889
ISBN-10:
1637635885
Weight:
24.16oz
Dimensions:
6" x 9" x 1.2"
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Eloquence-SimonSchuster_09032026_P10573212_onix30_Complete-20260903.xml
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Eloquence
List Price:
$30.00
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65
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20
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Overview
High performers aren’t burning out—they’re breaking down. The Executive Condition exposes how modern leadership accelerates biological decline and then shows executives how to turn health into their next strategic advantage.
Leadership performance is built on biology—and that foundation is failing. Sleep debt becomes personality. Stress hardens into culture. Decision quality narrows even as résumés grow longer. Boards notice it late. Teams feel it early. And the body—quietly, relentlessly—keeps the score.
For too long, modern leadership has rewarded the very habits that erode it: relentless pace, chronic sleep loss, performance martyrdom, and identity fused to output. The result is a hidden crisis at the top of organizations: leaders who still look successful while their cognition, metabolism, emotional range, and judgment quietly decline.
This is not a character flaw. It is an operating-system failure.
In The Executive Condition, physician-strategist Dr. Denis Cronson argues for a necessary pivot and reframes health as leadership infrastructure: a strategic asset to be designed, measured, and managed with the same discipline as capital, talent, and strategy. Drawing on data from wearables, labs, and real-world executive assessments, he reveals the patterns that keep high performers trapped in depletion, and the frameworks that help them recover capacity before collapse becomes visible.
Through concepts such as Executive Invincibility Syndrome, Four Pillar Failure, the Self-Sabotage Loop, Diagnostic Mirrors, and Eat to Lead, Cronson translates the science of the body into a practical strategy for leadership longevity: better sleep, steadier metabolism, clearer cognition, deeper emotional bandwidth, and stronger decision endurance.
This book is for C-suite executives, founders, board members, advisors, and coaches who refuse to mistake exhaustion for excellence—and who understand that the future of leadership will belong to those who can sustain the body, brain, and nervous system behind the role.
Because before strategy fails, biology does.
Leadership performance is built on biology—and that foundation is failing. Sleep debt becomes personality. Stress hardens into culture. Decision quality narrows even as résumés grow longer. Boards notice it late. Teams feel it early. And the body—quietly, relentlessly—keeps the score.
For too long, modern leadership has rewarded the very habits that erode it: relentless pace, chronic sleep loss, performance martyrdom, and identity fused to output. The result is a hidden crisis at the top of organizations: leaders who still look successful while their cognition, metabolism, emotional range, and judgment quietly decline.
This is not a character flaw. It is an operating-system failure.
In The Executive Condition, physician-strategist Dr. Denis Cronson argues for a necessary pivot and reframes health as leadership infrastructure: a strategic asset to be designed, measured, and managed with the same discipline as capital, talent, and strategy. Drawing on data from wearables, labs, and real-world executive assessments, he reveals the patterns that keep high performers trapped in depletion, and the frameworks that help them recover capacity before collapse becomes visible.
Through concepts such as Executive Invincibility Syndrome, Four Pillar Failure, the Self-Sabotage Loop, Diagnostic Mirrors, and Eat to Lead, Cronson translates the science of the body into a practical strategy for leadership longevity: better sleep, steadier metabolism, clearer cognition, deeper emotional bandwidth, and stronger decision endurance.
This book is for C-suite executives, founders, board members, advisors, and coaches who refuse to mistake exhaustion for excellence—and who understand that the future of leadership will belong to those who can sustain the body, brain, and nervous system behind the role.
Because before strategy fails, biology does.
