Your Brain and Business: The Neuroscience of Great Leaders, 1st edition
Published by Pearson FT Press (February 21, 2011) © 2011
- Srinivasan S. Pillay
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Lessons from the latest studies in neuroscience on how to train your brain to be an effective leader and manager.
- Neuroscience discoveries that help executives lead and communicate more effectively, drive change more successfully, and supercharge their personal performance.
- Leverage “social intelligence” to guide colleagues toward more effective relationships.
- Execute more crisply by clearing the pathways from thought to “action-orientation” to real action.
Chapter 1 Relevance of Neuroscience to the Business Environment 1
Chapter 2 How Does Positive Thinking Affect the Business Brain? 25
Chapter 3 The Neuroscience of Social Intelligence: Guiding Leaders and Managers to Effective Relationships 59
Chapter 4 Of Innovation, Intuition, and Impostors: Intangible Vulnerabilities in the Brains of Great Leaders 91
Chapter 5 The Challenge Prior to Change: How Brain Science Can Bring Managers and Leaders from Idea to Action Orientation 121
Chapter 6 From Action Orientation to Change: How Brain Science Can Bring Managers and Leaders from Action Orientation to Action 155
Chapter 7 Coaching Brain Regions 183
Chapter 8 Coaching Brain Processes 217
Index 255
Srinivasan S. Pillay, M.D., is a certified master executive coach, brain-imaging researcher, and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at
He is extensively sought out as a speaker and by the media. Select media appearances related to his business experience include The Financial Times in Greece, Epoca Magazine in Brazil, Forbes Magazine, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Investors Business Daily, Atlanta Journal Constitution, and the Sarasota Herald Tribune. Aside from his work on applying brain science to improving business performance, Dr. Pillay is also regarded as an international expert in burnout, stress, and anxiety, having been the Director of the Outpatient Anxiety Disorders Program at
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