Publisher Description
Written by experts at the forefront of their fields, The Brain Advantage focuses on the relationship between psychology, neuroscience and leadership. In short, easy-to-understand chapters, the authors share their findings and use real-world scenarios to illustrate how understanding the way people think can help leaders become better communicators and more effective decision-makers.
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“The Brain Advantage translates research on our brains into specific, usable ideas that all leaders can benefit from. Reading this book will change the way you think about what you do for a living.”
—
Sydney Finkelstein, author of Think Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions
About the Authors
Madeleine L. Van Hecke, PhD, is
a licensed clinical psychologist; a former professor of psychology at North
Central College in Naperville, Illinois; and a lecturer and workshop leader for
Open Arms Seminars. She is the author of Blind Spots: Why Smart People
Do Dumb Things.
Erik Synnestvedt has recorded nearly two hundred audiobooks for trade publishers as well as for the Library of Congress Talking Books for the Blind program. They include The Day We Found the Universe by Marcia Bartusiak, A Game as Old as Empire edited by Steven Hiatt, and Twitter Power by Joel Comm.
Brad Kolar is
the president of Kolar Associates, a management and leadership consulting
company.
Ken A. Paller, PhD,
works as a cognitive neuroscientist at Northwestern University. He is also a fellow
of the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center, a professor of psychology,
and director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Program at the university.
About Erik Synnestvedt
Erik Synnestvedt has recorded nearly two hundred audiobooks for trade publishers as well as for the Library of Congress Talking Books for the Blind program. They include The Day We Found the Universe by Marcia Bartusiak, A Game as Old as Empire edited by Steven Hiatt, and Twitter Power by Joel Comm.