Your Brain and Business: The Neuroscience of Great Leaders (paperback)
Language: English
Pages: 288
ISBN: 0134057775
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Harvard psychiatrist and executive coach Srinivasan S. Pillay illuminates the rapidly-emerging links between modern brain science and the corner office. What does neuroscience have to do with leadership? Everything. In Your Brain and Business: The Neuroscience of Great Leaders, Phillay discusses recent advances in brain science and neuroimaging and how they can dramatically improve the way leaders work with colleagues to drive successful change. As the brain is increasingly examined in the context of personal and organizational development, remarkable insights are being uncovered: insights that are leading to powerful new strategies for improving business execution.
Pillay reveals six ways that brain science can be used by today’s executives, and presents new interventions for coaches who want to help their clients overcome common leadership problems. Discover how to:
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Use positive, “strengths-based” approaches to encourage the brain to learn
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Encourage more effective relationships through the fascinating neuroscience of social intelligence
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Promote innovation and intuition, and overcome intangible vulnerabilities in leaders’ brains
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Transform the “idea” of change into crisp, timely execution
Leaders and coaches worldwide are already applying this knowledge to dramatically improve personal performance. Now, with Pillay’s help, everyone can.
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“pull the wool over the eyes” of followers, because followers are sensitive to unfairness even prior to the execution of any actions (the insula registers this at a “gut feeling” level). This can significantly disrupt teamwork. Thus, fairness can work to a leader’s advantage if followers sense this, because it will also increase cooperation and alignment, which will eventually impact productivity. Coaches can use this information to take the emphasis off of blaming the leader and explain how.
Occurs when the actual movement or action occurs.27 Therefore, in coaching, during the education, data collection, and planning phases, when we engage clients in their goals, we are ideally asking them to imagine the course of action they are about to undertake. The pre-action stages of coaching in fact involve observation, planning, imagery, and verbalization. How you verbalize may impact how much you stimulate the left frontal cortex (which is necessary for commitment). For example, if a client.
To a problem, it may enhance one’s perspective. New workers, managers, and leaders in general often forget that when they start a new position, that position has a history. Knowing this history involves looking into long-term memory. Remembering that the hippocampus is part of any corporate brain will help you remember that for any given situation, knowing the history is important. A very accomplished CEO took over a company, and upon arrival, she made some very dramatic changes without much.
Might want to measure the other person’s baseline anxiety and state anxiety10 as you go through steps related to each function. • Functions to enhance—The functions that we want to enhance are the ability to dream, the ability to take risks while controlling anxiety, the ability to think outside of time and space, and the ability to enhance metaphors and cross modal abstractions. Here are some questions to ask concerning the ability to dream: • If reality were no obstruction, how.