Neuroscience for leadership : harnessing the brain gain advantage /: harnessing the brain gain advantage. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tara Swart (CEO, the Unlimited Mind, UK), Kitty Chisholm (Director, Boardwalk Leadership, UK), Paul Brown (Senior Advisor, Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, Vietnam, Faculty Professor, Organisational Neuroscience, Monarch Business School, Switzerland).
• Authors: Swart, Tara; Chisholm, Kitty; Brown, Paul, 1939-
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- Section 1: What are we here for? -- Introduction -- An overview -- 1. Evolution, capitalism, emerging markets -- and love Intro to wetware, Bring on the love, Understanding emotions (minus the decisions bit) and chemicals -- 2. Brains, bodies, businesses: a systems approach (alternative title reflecting the systems approach and also that we will need to lay out our neuroscience stall early on as the basis for what comes afterwards) -- 3. Leadership Models for the Age of the Brain (our take on leadership and what insights neuroscience gives us) -- Section 2: Making Sense of Relationships -- 4. Testosterone and trouble (probably in expanding this section it will also extend to risk and relationships and risk and entrepreneurship as these will be hard to separate out) -- 5. The Soft Stuff is so Hard (including the social aspects/benefits of brain development and function, communications, story telling, trust, cooperation, altruism) -- 6. Diversity and Decisions (gender and other forms of diversity, difficult decisions, difficult/different reactions, managing fora for decisions, boards, meetings etc) -- 7. Changing yourself, changing others (attention, flexibility, reflection, will power, emotional regulation, self management, enabling others to change, goals) -- Section 3: Follow my Leader: Leaders who create sustainable success -- 8. Elite Performance (brain fitness, expertise, Flow, sustainability, emotions qua the limbic leader) -- 9. Confidence and Stress: keeping the balance (include entrepreneurs, managers, leaders and the differences??) -- 10. The fire, creating the spark ('we regard the human mind as a fire which has to be set alight' paraphrase Geoffrey Crowther) will this include values, integrity, etc? can we include the history lessons here? -- 11. Whole Person, Vibrant Organisation (pulling together all the above).
• Publisher Details: Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 260 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 158/.4; Business; Leadership -- Psychological aspects; Management science; Leadership; Management; Organization; Behavioral economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Leadership; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior; Leadership -- Psychological aspects; Business & Economics -- Strategic Planning; Management & management techniques; Organizational theory & behaviour; Behavioural economics; Business strategy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137466860; 1137466863; 9781137466877; 1137466871; 9781349499922; 1349499927
• Related ISBNs: 9781137466853
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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