The Leadership Brain For Dummies

Discover how to train your brain for leadership

Based upon the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience and advances in brain-based education, this friendly guide shows you how you can train your brain to successfully influence, lead, and transform any team or organization. You get practical, hands-on information for assessing your strengths and weaknesses as a leader, adopting a style of leadership that suits your mental and emotional characteristics, and leading your team to its fullest potential.

• Leadership is all in your head — get a handle on the science behind the brain to understand how it makes connections, how it changes, and the principles of the brain's need for learning and productivity

• Tapping into the brain of a leader — discover your unique intellectual strengths to help determine the style of leadership that's best for you and for the situation at hand

• Thinking your way to the top — become a leader who can harness emotions as well as facts to make the right decisions in the workplace

• Working with the brains you have — find out how to enable your current employees to excel, hire the best brain for a job, optimize working conditions, and make teams work under any conditions

• Training and developing brains — change your employees' minds (and skill sets) through effective training and development