‘Carefully researched and updated, yet filled with practical and immediately usable strategies, this is a must-read book for anyone seeking to understand and influence human behavior.’
—Pat Wolfe, Educational Consultant
‘The most important book I have ever had the pleasure of learning from and using. It gives leaders what they need to effectively meet the learning needs of individuals and positively affect organizational adaptability and capacity.’
—Delise Neely, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership
Cardinal Stritch University
Unleash the power of the leadership-brain connection!
This updated edition of the groundbreaking book Connecting Leadership to the Brain provides school leaders with a visionary framework for understanding how mindful leadership significantly impacts growth and achievement in educational communities.
Offering an approach compatible with the ways individuals naturally process information and learn, this resource links knowledge about the physiological, social, emotional, constructive, reflective, and dispositional nature of the brain to compatible leadership practice. Leaders will find specific examples and reflection exercises focused on how to:
- Support the mind-body connection
- Promote social relationships
- Harness the power of emotion
- Expedite the construction of knowledge
- Build a culture of reflection
- Cultivate productive dispositions
Mindful Leadership is an essential companion for helping readers become mindful leaders who consciously attend to the nature of intelligence in the process of influencing the achievement of goals.
Tabela de Conteúdo
Preface to the Second Edition: A Refined Framework
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction: Tightening the Connection
Perception of Connection
How the Book Unfolds
Your Role
Part 1. Breaking Through
1. A Louis Moment
Louis′s Moment
Breakthrough Happens
Shift Follows
A Mindful Moment
Summary Observations
Reader Reflection
2. A New Sense of Nature
What′s a Brain For?
An Intriguing Matter
A Definition in Progress
A Revealing Moment
Summary Observations
Reader Reflection
3. A New Sense of Leadership
Of Assumed Value
Familiar But Elusive
Basic in Nature
Influenced by Context
Theorized in Context
Primed to Evolve
Summary Observations
Reader Reflection
4. A Mindful Framework
The Mindful Connection
The Meaning of Mindful
The Means to be Mindful
Attention to Information
Articulation of Perception
Application to Practice
Adjustment From Experience
Summary Observations
Reader Reflection
Part 2. Minding Revelation
5. Physiological Nature
The Physiological Base
The Gist of It
Essence
Implications
Reader Reflection
6. Social Nature
Getting to Know You and Me and We
The Gist of It
Essence
Implications
Reader Reflection
7. Emotional Nature
This Emotional Life
The Gist of It
Essence
Implications
Reader Reflection
8. Constructive Nature
Genius
The Gist of It
Essence
Implications
Reader Reflection
9. Reflective Nature
Imagine
The Gist of It
Essence
Implications
Reader Reflection
10. Dispositional Nature
Disposition Fair and Foul
The Gist of It
Essence
Implications
Reader Reflection
Part 3. Following Through
11. Mindful Leadership
The Mindful Leader
Mindful Purpose
Mindful Attention
Mindful Articulation
Mindful Application
Mindful Adjustment
Mindful Conclusions
Summary Observations
Reader Reflection
12. Mindful Shift
Confronting the Box
Pushing Perception
Stepping Out
Summary Observations
Reader Reflection
Glossary
References
Index
Sobre o autor
Nancy Stanford-Blair is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and the Leadership Center at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She also serves as a leadership, learning, and development consultant to education, corporate, and service organizations.
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