The Brain Advantage: Become a More Effective Business Leader Using the Latest Brain Research Audiobook, by Madeleine L. Van Hecke Play Audiobook Sample

The Brain Advantage: Become a More Effective Business Leader Using the Latest Brain Research Audiobook

The Brain Advantage: Become a More Effective Business Leader Using the Latest Brain Research Audiobook, by Madeleine L. Van Hecke Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Erik Synnestvedt Publisher: Gildan Media Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: January 2013 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781469086255

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

27

Longest Chapter Length:

23:33 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

12:22 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

18:47 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

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 

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  • “A well-researched book that outlines the issues and surprises about the brain that leaders could do well to understand.”

    — David Rock, author of Your Brain at Work
  • “A very ambitious book...Highly readable and entertaining.”

    — Gary Klein, PhD, author of Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions
  • “The Brain Advantage pulls together current science and contemporary thinking about brain function and...applies it to critical leadership skills and challenges faced by business leaders today.”

    — Michael C. Riordan, president and CEO, Greenville Hospital System, Greenville, South Carolina
  • “The Brain Advantage is one of those books where you get a lot for a little. The stories are compelling.”

    — Craig Wortmann, CEO, Experience LLC

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  • Overall Performance: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5

    " Very interesting. Lots of good research and practical applications into business/life. "

    — Kami, 4/23/2013
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    " It is useful to know that my brain is not always on my side with full scientic proof. "

    — Kyoungjin, 3/6/2013

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.