As every CEO knows, it can be very lonely at the top. The problems faced by senior executives in organizations are very complex and beyond the capability of any one individual or team to solve them. A CEO needs his/her entire organization working collaboratively to use its collective brainpower to overcome tough challenges to win [...]
In the year 2013 there is still a crisis in management. This dates back 100 years and can be traced to the days of the Ford Motor Company. When Henry Ford was producing black Model T cars, a man by the name of Frederick Taylor invented what is known today as scientific management. Managing employees [...]
There is no question that the key to establishing and maintaining a long-term competitive advantage is attracting and retaining top talent who use their thinking skills to win the battle for market dominance. The good news is that emerging knowledge of the brain is giving us tools, processes and procedures that allow managers and nonsupervisory [...]
David Rock, CEO of the Neuroleadership Institute writes in his book “Your Brain at Work” that science shows that “picturing a concept activates the visual cortex in the occipital lobe, at the back of the brain. This region can be activated through actual pictures, or through metaphors, and storytelling, anything that generates an image in [...]
