Your brain and business : the neuroscience of great leaders

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pillay, Srinivasan S., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Executive coaching--Psychological aspects.

Executive coaching.

Leadership--Psychological aspects.

Leadership.

Management.

Executive ability.

Brain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 268 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] FT Press 2011

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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: Use positive, “strengths-based” approaches to encourage the brain to learn Encourage more effective relationships through the fascinating neuroscience of social intelligence Promote innovation and intuition, and overcome intangible vulnerabilities in leaders’ brains 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.

Contents:

Relevance of neuroscience to the business environment

How does positive thinking affect the business brain?

The neuroscience of social intelligence : guiding leaders and managers to effective relationships

Of innovation, intuition and impostors : intangible vulnerabilities in the brains of great leaders

The challenge prior to change : how brain science can bring managers and leaders from idea to action-orientation

From action orientation to change : how brain science can bring managers and leaders from action-orientation to action

Coaching brain regions

Coaching brain processes.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612899331

9781282899339

1282899333

9780132614269

013261426X

OCLC:

1027169148