{"id":5457,"date":"2014-05-13T09:06:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T09:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cerebyte.com\/?p=5457"},"modified":"2014-05-13T09:06:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T09:06:36","slug":"how-leaders-should-think-act-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebyte.com\/2014\/05\/13\/how-leaders-should-think-act-differently\/","title":{"rendered":"How leaders should think & act differently"},"content":{"rendered":"
\t\t\t\t<\/a>I recently read a Wall Street Journal article on neuroscience studies of leaders and their decision-making process. To be completely transparent, the article quotes extensively from Dr. Srini Pillay and Dr. David Rock. (We have a formal partnership with Dr. Pillay, and Dr. Rock wrote an endorsement of our book, \u201cThe Star Factor,\u201d so of course I like their work.)\n\nThe article provides an excellent description of what neuroscience researchers have found about a variety of conditions such as the impact of anxiety on decision-making.\n\nOne of the main points of the article is that leaders use emotional and social neural capabilities as much as\u2014or in some cases, more than\u2014rational processes when making critical decisions. In this regard, the best section of the article is near the end where it discusses the importance of leaders staying positive.\n\nBut this article, like so much else in the field, falls short of practical advice on how leaders should think and act differently.\n\nThe primary advice is to be \u201cmindful.\u201d This notion is well expressed by both Pillay and Rock: Be aware of and use your intellect to manage your emotional responses.\n\nAlthough mindfulness is a powerful tool (I practice it myself) we think there\u2019s a better way\u2014a way that integrates Dan Pink\u2019s work in \u201cDrive\u201d with this neuroscience.\n\nLeadership should consciously do three things that proactively preempt many of the negatives of human reaction while leveraging the best of the findings in this article:\n\n\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[424,287,78],"tags":[438,61],"yoast_head":"\n