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Introduction: Is there a Connection?. Dickman & Stanford. What makes you think that there is a connection between leadership and the brain?. Reasonable question what, why, how, when, where of things = human nature
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Introduction: Is there a Connection? Dickman & Stanford
What makes you think that there is a connection between leadership and the brain? • Reasonable questionwhat, why, how, when, where of things = human nature • Underlying question how is the brain accessible at a conscious level to leaders who seek to most effectively engage it in the achievement of important goals? • A question to be refinedthe answer comes from the following fields: • Neurophysiology/neuropsychology • Cognitive psychology/developmental psychology • Evolutionary psychology and biology, primatology • Ethology, linguistics, psychophysics • Mathematics, philosophy, anthropology • Archeology and computer science
Marian Diamond(1998) multiple lobes of the brain = makes us human • Francis Crick (1994)Our brains are responsible for our mental lives through the behavior of nerve cells and molecules • William Calvin (1996) • IQ is the outcome of many aspects of our brain organization • Brain processes can cause consciousness and consciousness is a feature of the brain Searle (1997) Gazzaniga (1998) How the brain enables the the mind is a question for the 21st. century
What is this book about? A new perspective Framework Perceptual Shift No universal Prescription A shared journey Complex reflective reasoning capacities of the prefrontal lobes