Book 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.
Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Why Should Leaders Care About Improving Thinking?
- Part One Recent Discoveries About the Brain That Change Everything
- The Brain Is A Connection Machine
- Up Close, No Two Brains Are Alike
- The Brain Hardwires Everything It Can
- Our Hard Wiring Drives Automatic Perception
- It’s Practically Impossible To Deconstruct Our Wiring
- It’s Easy To Create New Wiring
- Summarizing The Recent Discoveries About The Brain
- Part Two The Six Steps to Transforming Performance
- Step 1 Think About Thinking
- Step 2 Listen For Potential
- Step 3 Speak With Intent
- Step 4 Dance Toward Insight
- Step 5 Create New Thinking
- Step 6 Follow Up
- A Summary Of The Six Steps
- Part Three Putting the Six Steps to Use
- Using The Six Steps To Help Someone Solve A Problem
- Using The Six Steps To Help Someone Make A Decision
- Using The Six Steps To Give Feed Back
- Using The Six Steps With Teams
- Using The Six Steps With Children
- Applying The Six Steps To A Whole Organization
- In Conclusion
- Glossary Of Terms
- Resources
- Notes
- Searchable Terms
- About the Author
- Acclaim
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
Product information
- Title: Quiet Leadership
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2009
- Publisher(s): HarperCollins Publishers
- ISBN: 9780061750649
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