
It's Lonely at the Top
CEO Strategies for Inspiring Yourself and Your Team
Nancy MacKay(Author)
Forbes Books (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 18. June 2026
Book
Hardback
216 pages
979-8-88750-763-7 (ISBN)
Description
Lead with inspiration. Thrive at the top.
Leadership at the highest levels can feel overwhelming and isolating. CEOs, executives, and business owners often face intense pressure to perform, deliver results, and inspire others-yet struggle with burnout, disconnection, and self-doubt.
In It's Lonely at the Top: CEO Strategies for Inspiring Yourself and Your Top Team, Nancy MacKay offers a proven framework for mastering self-leadership before leading others. Drawing on two decades of experience with more than five thousand leaders, she reveals how to prioritize health, strengthen relationships, reclaim time, and develop resilience.
Readers will learn how to inspire themselves daily, build unstoppable confidence, and create organizations fueled by trust and impact. Instead of sacrificing well-being for success, MacKay shows how leaders can achieve both.
This essential guide is for CEOs, executives, and aspiring leaders ready to move beyond isolation and pressure into clarity, confidence, and lasting influence.
Leadership at the highest levels can feel overwhelming and isolating. CEOs, executives, and business owners often face intense pressure to perform, deliver results, and inspire others-yet struggle with burnout, disconnection, and self-doubt.
In It's Lonely at the Top: CEO Strategies for Inspiring Yourself and Your Top Team, Nancy MacKay offers a proven framework for mastering self-leadership before leading others. Drawing on two decades of experience with more than five thousand leaders, she reveals how to prioritize health, strengthen relationships, reclaim time, and develop resilience.
Readers will learn how to inspire themselves daily, build unstoppable confidence, and create organizations fueled by trust and impact. Instead of sacrificing well-being for success, MacKay shows how leaders can achieve both.
This essential guide is for CEOs, executives, and aspiring leaders ready to move beyond isolation and pressure into clarity, confidence, and lasting influence.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Advantage Media Group
Product notice
With dust jacket
Illustrations
5 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-88750-763-7 (9798887507637)
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E-Book
05/2026
Simon + Schuster LLC
€9.88
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Person
NANCY MACKAY, CEO of MacKay CEO Forums, helps leaders thrive. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Content
Chapter 1: You Go First
Chapter 2: Time Mastery
Chapter 3: Ego Mastery
Chapter 4: Emotional Mastery and Mental Fitness
Chapter 5: Proactive Health Mastery
Chapter 6: Relationship Mastery
Chapter 7: Passion Mastery
Chapter 8: Innovation Mastery
Chapter 9: One Hundred Percent Responsibility Mastery
Chapter 10: Shared Experience Mastery
Chapter 11: Social Contribution Mastery
Chapter 2: Time Mastery
Chapter 3: Ego Mastery
Chapter 4: Emotional Mastery and Mental Fitness
Chapter 5: Proactive Health Mastery
Chapter 6: Relationship Mastery
Chapter 7: Passion Mastery
Chapter 8: Innovation Mastery
Chapter 9: One Hundred Percent Responsibility Mastery
Chapter 10: Shared Experience Mastery
Chapter 11: Social Contribution Mastery