Mindful Leadership For Dummies

Chapter 22

(More Than) Ten Sources of Info on Mindful Leadership

IN THIS CHAPTER

Looking at neuroscience and brain-based leadership

Improving the way your organisation thinks

Checking out useful mindfulness and mindful leadership websites and books

In this chapter – the final chapter of the book – you find lots of valuable sources of information to help you move forward on your mindful leadership journey. Instead of confining the contents of this chapter to websites and books focusing specifically on mindful leadership, we include information on brain-based leadership and ways to create thinking spaces within organisations. We believe that gaining awareness of how your brain works and learning how to work with it rather than against it is essential for any aspiring mindful leader.

The Academy of Brain-Based Leadership

Your brain controls everything you do. By gaining an understanding of how it functions, setting an intent to optimise its strengths and minimise its limitations, you improve not only your performance as a leader but also your relationships at home and work, not to mention your health and well-being.

Managing a business, organisation or government agency in the 21st century can be challenging, and constant technological disruption and distraction are becoming the norm. For the last seven years, our work has focused on bringing practical brain science coupled with mindfulness into the board room as an aid to resilience and productivity.

In the last 15 years, we have ...