Description:
Improving the performance of your employees involves one of the hardest challenges in the known universe: changing the way they think. In constant demand as a coach, speaker, and consultant to companies around the world, David Rock has proven that the secret to leading people (and living and working with them) is found in the space between their ears. "If people are being paid to think," he writes, "isn't it time the business world found out what the thing doing the work, the brain, is all about?" Supported by the latest groundbreaking research, Quiet Leadership provides a brain-based approach that will help busy leaders, executives, and managers improve their own and their colleagues' performance. Rock offers a practical, six-step guide to making permanent workplace performance change by unleashing higher productivity, new levels of morale, and greater job satisfaction.
Brief description:
Dr. David Rock coined the term 'Neuroleadership' and is the Director of the NeuroLeadership Institute, a cognitive science think tank and consultancy that has built a new science for leadership, learning and change. The Institute has helped nearly twenty million people in the last decade be more effective by understanding the brain, and has advised more than two thirds of the Fortune 100. He is the author of Coaching with the Brain in Mind, Quiet Leadership, and Your Brain at Work, and dozens of papers on the neuroscience of leadership. Originally Australian, he now lives in Miami Beach, Florida.
Review Quotes:
"Quiet Leadership will help you improve other people's thinking, which is the best place to begin improving other people's performance." - Marshall Goldsmith, founder of Marshall Goldsmith Partners; named one of the 50 greatest thinkers who have impacted the field of management by the American Management Association.
"Essential reading for any leader who has ever wondered 'Why don't people do what I tell them to do?.'" - Elisa Mallis, Human Performance Consultant, Accenture, London
"This highly practical guide includes exercises for each major concept, giving readers a chance to practice what they've learned." - Library Journal
A quick and useful guide to a softer management style that draws on recent discoveries in the field of neuroscience - Continental Magazine