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The Wise Advocate: The Inner Voice of Strategic Leadership
Leadership is the habit of making good choices. Even in difficult and uncertain circumstances, the most effective leaders focus their attention and overcome entrenched patterns of behavior to push an organization to new heights of success. This capability is no the latest research on the brain shows that we can pinpoint the mental activity associated with it―and cultivate it for our benefit.
In this book, Art Kleiner, a strategy expert; Jeffrey Schwartz, a research psychiatrist; and Josie Thomson, an executive coach, give a transformative explanation of how cutting-edge neuroscience can help business leaders set a course toward better management. Mapping the functions of a manager onto established patterns of mental activity, they identify crucial brain circuits and their parallels in organizational culture. Strategic leaders, they show, play the role of wise advocates : able to go beyond day-to-day transactional behavior to a longer-term, broader perspective that articulates their organization’s deeper purpose. True leaders can play this influencer role in an organization because they have cultivated similar self-reflective habits in their own minds. Providing a powerful guide to decision strategies and their consequences, The Wise Advocate helps managers find their own inner voice and then make that voice ring out loud and clear, with a four-step program for practice and catalytic implications for management strategy, executive education, and business results.
In this book, Art Kleiner, a strategy expert; Jeffrey Schwartz, a research psychiatrist; and Josie Thomson, an executive coach, give a transformative explanation of how cutting-edge neuroscience can help business leaders set a course toward better management. Mapping the functions of a manager onto established patterns of mental activity, they identify crucial brain circuits and their parallels in organizational culture. Strategic leaders, they show, play the role of wise advocates : able to go beyond day-to-day transactional behavior to a longer-term, broader perspective that articulates their organization’s deeper purpose. True leaders can play this influencer role in an organization because they have cultivated similar self-reflective habits in their own minds. Providing a powerful guide to decision strategies and their consequences, The Wise Advocate helps managers find their own inner voice and then make that voice ring out loud and clear, with a four-step program for practice and catalytic implications for management strategy, executive education, and business results.
232 pages, Hardcover
First published January 29, 2019
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June 27, 2019
Something very unusual and not easy to read about the philosophy of a leadership phenomenon.
Useful to be read amongst leadership coaches. Very useful. Not sure leaders themselves have time to get through this book, but those who will find it at least provocative.
Useful to be read amongst leadership coaches. Very useful. Not sure leaders themselves have time to get through this book, but those who will find it at least provocative.
November 23, 2018
I received an advanced reader's copy in exchange for an honest review.
This book is actually a pretty broad collection of leadership advice that I would not have thought to put together, but every chapter and topic is very useful. I would recommend this book for anyone engaging in new leadership , as it takes time to break all of these ideas down as to why they work, and explains some of the psychology behind them, as well as quelling any natural instinct towards doubt. Definitely a keeper .
This book is actually a pretty broad collection of leadership advice that I would not have thought to put together, but every chapter and topic is very useful. I would recommend this book for anyone engaging in new leadership , as it takes time to break all of these ideas down as to why they work, and explains some of the psychology behind them, as well as quelling any natural instinct towards doubt. Definitely a keeper .
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