pages cm "Leadership can be learned: new evidence from neuroscience clearly points to ways that leaders can significantly improve how they engage with and motivate others, allowing them and their organizations to continue discovering their potential. This book provides leaders and managers with a guide to practical, effective actions, based on neuroscience, explained in an accessible way. It focuses on the competencies and capabilities that leaders and managers need, to think creatively, take good decisions, improve their performance and resilience, deal with complexity, incentivize, and innovate, rather than focusing on brain regions or even functional pathways within the brain. This book comes from three authors who combine knowledge and experience in applied neuroscience, psychiatry, organizational psychology, learning and leadership coaching at a world class level. "-- Machine generated contents note: -- Section 1: What are we here for? -- Introduction -- An overview -- 1. Evolution, capitalism, emerging markets - and love Intro to wetware, Bring on the love, Understanding emotions (minus the decisions bit) and chemicals -- 2. Brains, bodies, businesses: a systems approach (alternative title reflecting the systems approach and also that we will need to lay out our neuroscience stall early on as the basis for what comes afterwards) -- 3. Leadership Models for the Age of the Brain (our take on leadership and what insights neuroscience gives us) -- Section 2: Making Sense of Relationships -- 4. Testosterone and trouble (probably in expanding this section it will also extend to risk and relationships and risk and entrepreneurship as these will be hard to separate out) -- 5. The Soft Stuff is so Hard (including the social aspects/benefits of brain development and function, communications, story telling, trust, cooperation, altruism) -- 6. Diversity and Decisions (gender and other forms of diversity, difficult decisions, difficult/different reactions, managing fora for decisions, boards, meetings etc) -- 7. Changing yourself, changing others (attention, flexibility, reflection, will power, emotional regulation, self management, enabling others to change, goals) -- Section 3: Follow my Leader: Leaders who create sustainable success -- 8. Elite Performance (brain fitness, expertise, Flow, sustainability, emotions qua the limbic leader) -- 9. Confidence and Stress: keeping the balance (include entrepreneurs, managers, leaders and the differences??) -- 10. The fire, creating the spark ('we regard the human mind as a fire which has to be set alight' paraphrase Geoffrey Crowther) will this include values, integrity,etc? can we include the history lessons here? -- 11. Whole Person, Vibrant Organisation (pulling together all the above)