David Rock – författare

Hur får vi ut mesta möjliga av våra mentala resurser i en vardag fylld av stress och prestationskrav? I "Hjärnan på jobbet" får du möta Emily och Paul – mitt i yrkesliv, karriärer och vardagens familjeliv. Emily har precis tillträtt en ledande tjänst på ett större företag medan Paul driver eget som IT-konsult. Deras arbetsdagar fylls av e-post, telefonsamtal, möten, projekt, planer och beslut. Bara att hålla ställningarna inför denna virvelvind av information och uppgifter blir ibland oöverstigligt för dem.

I boken får vi göra en resa in i Emilys och Pauls hjärnor och se hur de sorterar alla intryck, och hur de prioriterar och agerar. Som tur är har Emily och Paul David Rock till hjälp: Han vet hur hjärnan fungerar och hur den kan möta de krav som ställs på oss. Rock visar hur Emily och Paul – och därmed du och jag som läser boken – kan navigera framgångsrikt genom en arbetsdag, för att mot slutet av dagen fortfarande känna oss fulla av energi och lust när hemmabestyren tar vid.

Boken tar upp ämnen som varför hjärnan blir så ansträngd av stress, varför det är svårt för oss att ändra beteendemönster och hur mindfulness kan hjälpa oss att få ut mesta möjliga av våra mentala resurser. Annat som tas upp är hur koncentration och uppmärksamhet kan bidra till en positiv förändring i hjärnan och vad som bidrar till energi, effektivitet och produktivitet i arbetet – inte minst hur kulturen på företag och arbetsplatser kan förändras för att bidra till detta. Det är hjärnforskningen som har svaren – och i Hjärnan på jobbet får du verktygen för dig och din arbetsplats. Det är hjärnforskningen som har svaren - och i "Hjärnan på jobbet" får du verktygen för dig och din arbetsplats.

"Rock tillhör dem inom näringslivet som tidigt började snegla på resultaten från hjärnforskningen. Han ställde sig frågan om ett nytt mer produktivt ledarskap, och ett effektivt självledarskap, kunde förankras i de nya neurokognitiva landvinningarna. I detta pedagogiska mästerverk, nu på svenska med titeln "Hjärnan på jobbet", har han lyckats sammanfatta och förmedla tillämpningarna av den nya kunskapen på ett föredömligt sätt, rakt ner i vardagen, där alla kan känna igen sig!"Ur den svenska utgåvans förord av Marie Ryd, dr i medicinsk vetenskap och chefredaktör för forskningsinformationstjänsten Holone

OM DAVID ROCK

David Rock är konsult och ledarskapscoach med hela världen som arbetsfält och har varit med och startat NeuroLeadership Institute och NeuroLeadership Summit. År 2010 doktorerade David Rock vid Middlesex University i London inom området Neuroscience of Leadership. David Rock kommer ursprungligen från Australien och bor nu i New York, USA.

"Författaren har lyckats med att samla in ny neuropsykologisk kunskap och göra den lättillgänglig. Jag tycker att boken är en riktig aptitretare och kan rekommendera den till alla som är intresserade av att lära sig mer om vad som stressar dem och hur de skulle kunna få ut mer av sin dagliga energi." David Meden, BTJ, 2015-02-19 (häftepos 15107023)

Improving the performance of your employees involves one of the hardest challenges in the known universe: changing the way they think. In constant demand as a coach, speaker, and consultant to companies around the world, David Rock has proven that the secret to leading people (and living and working with them) is found in the space between their ears. "If people are being paid to think," he writes, "isn''t it time the business world found out what the thing doing the work, the brain, is all about?" Supported by the latest groundbreaking research, Quiet Leadership provides a brain-based approach that will help busy leaders, executives, and managers improve their own and their colleagues'' performance. Rock offers a practical, six-step guide to making permanent workplace performance change by unleashing higher productivity, new levels of morale, and greater job satisfaction.

In Your Brain at Work, David Rock takes readers inside the heads—literally—of a modern two-career couple as they mentally process their workday to reveal how we can better organize, prioritize, remember, and process our daily lives. Rock, the author of Quiet Leadership and Personal Best, shows how it’s possible for this couple, and thus the reader, not only to survive in today’s overwhelming work environment but succeed in it—and still feel energized and accomplished at the end of the day.

Meet Emily and Paul: The parents of two young children, Emily is the newly promoted VP of marketing at a large corporation while Paul works from home or from clients'' offices as an independent IT consultant. Their lives, like all of ours, are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, yet more emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. Just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task.

In this book, we travel inside Emily and Paul''s brains as they attempt to sort the vast quantities of information they''re presented with, figure out how to prioritize it, organize it and act on it. Fortunately for Emily and Paul, they''re in good hands: David Rock knows how the brain works-and more specifically, how it works in a work setting. Rock shows how it''s possible for Emily and Paul, and thus the reader, not only to survive in today''s overwhelming work environment but succeed in it-and still feel energized and accomplished at the end of the day.

YOUR BRAIN AT WORK explores issues such as:

- why our brains feel so taxed, and how to maximize our mental resources

- why it''s so hard to focus, and how to better manage distractions

- how to maximize your chance of finding insights that can solve seemingly insurmountable problems

- how to keep your cool in any situation, so that you can make the best decisions possible

- how to collaborate more effectively with others

- why providing feedback is so difficult, and how to make it easier

- how to be more effective at changing other people''s behavior

Improving the performance of your employees involves one of the hardest challenges in the known universe: changing the way they think. In constant demand as a coach, speaker, and consultant to companies around the world, David Rock has proven that the secret to leading people (and living and working with them) is found in the space between their ears. ""If people are being paid to think,"" he writes, ""isn''t it time the business world found out what the thing doing the work, the brain, is all about?"" Supported by the latest groundbreaking research, Quiet Leadership provides a brain-based approach that will help busy leaders, executives, and managers improve their own and their colleagues'' performance. Rock offers a practical, six-step guide to making permanent workplace performance change by unleashing higher productivity, new levels of morale, and greater job satisfaction.

A researcher and consultant burrows deep inside the heads of one modern two-career couple to examine how each partner processes the workday—revealing how a more nuanced understanding of the brain can allow us to better organize, prioritize, recall, and sort our daily lives.

Emily and Paul are the parents of two young children, and professionals with different careers. Emily is the newly promoted vice president of marketing at a large corporation; Paul works from home or from clients'' offices as an independent IT consultant. Their days are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, more emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. Just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task.

In Your Brain at Work, Dr. David Rock goes inside Emily and Paul''s brains to see how they function as each attempts to sort, prioritize, organize, and act on the vast quantities of information they receive in one typical day. Dr. Rock is an expert on how the brain functions in a work setting. By analyzing what is going on in their heads, he offers solutions Emily and Paul (and all of us) can use to survive and thrive in today''s hyperbusy work environment—and still feel energized and accomplished at the end of the day.

In Your Brain at Work, Dr. Rock explores issues such as:

DISCOVER THE SCIENCE BEHIND BRAIN-BASED COACHING

By understanding how the brain works, coaching professionals can better tailor their language, strategies, and goals to be in alignment with an individual’s “hard-wired” way of thinking. Written by two well-known coaching professionals, David Rock and Linda Page, Coaching with the Brain in Mind presents the tools and methodologies that can be employed by novice and experienced coaches alike to create an effective—and ultimately more rewarding—relationship for both coach and client.

This informative guide to the neuroscience of coaching clearly demonstrates how brain-based coaching works in practice, and how the power of the mind can be harnessed to help an individual learn and grow. Illustrated with numerous case examples and stories, this book is organized for immediate use by professionals in their client work.

Coverage includes:

Building on the existing foundation of coaching by adding neuroscience as an evidence base for the profession, Coaching with the Brain in Mind shows that it is possible to become a better professional coach by understanding how the brain works. As well, the authors, through their research, present that an understanding of neuroscience research, however new and speculative, can help coaches and leaders fulfill their potential as change agents in the lives of others.

DISCOVER THE SCIENCE BEHIND BRAIN-BASED COACHING

By understanding how the brain works, coaching professionals can better tailor their language, strategies, and goals to be in alignment with an individual’s “hard-wired” way of thinking. Written by two well-known coaching professionals, David Rock and Linda Page, Coaching with the Brain in Mind presents the tools and methodologies that can be employed by novice and experienced coaches alike to create an effective—and ultimately more rewarding—relationship for both coach and client.

This informative guide to the neuroscience of coaching clearly demonstrates how brain-based coaching works in practice, and how the power of the mind can be harnessed to help an individual learn and grow. Illustrated with numerous case examples and stories, this book is organized for immediate use by professionals in their client work.

Coverage includes:

Building on the existing foundation of coaching by adding neuroscience as an evidence base for the profession, Coaching with the Brain in Mind shows that it is possible to become a better professional coach by understanding how the brain works. As well, the authors, through their research, present that an understanding of neuroscience research, however new and speculative, can help coaches and leaders fulfill their potential as change agents in the lives of others.

Solidly grounded in up-to-date research, theory, and technology, Teaching Secondary Mathematics is a practical, student-friendly, and popular text for secondary mathematics methods courses. It provides clear and useful approaches for mathematics teachers and shows how concepts typically found in a secondary mathematics curriculum can be taught in a positive and encouraging way. The thoroughly revised fifth edition combines this pragmatic approach with truly innovative and integrated technology content throughout. Synthesized content between the book and a comprehensive Instructor and Student Resource website offers expanded discussion of chapter topics, additional examples, and technological tips, such as using and assessing artificial intelligence.

Each chapter features tried-and-tested pedagogical techniques, problem-solving challenges, discussion points, activities, mathematical challenges, and student-life-based applications that will encourage students to think and do.

New to the fifth edition:

Solidly grounded in up-to-date research, theory, and technology, Teaching Secondary Mathematics is a practical, student-friendly, and popular text for secondary mathematics methods courses. It provides clear and useful approaches for mathematics teachers and shows how concepts typically found in a secondary mathematics curriculum can be taught in a positive and encouraging way. The thoroughly revised fifth edition combines this pragmatic approach with truly innovative and integrated technology content throughout. Synthesized content between the book and a comprehensive Instructor and Student Resource website offers expanded discussion of chapter topics, additional examples, and technological tips, such as using and assessing artificial intelligence.

Each chapter features tried-and-tested pedagogical techniques, problem-solving challenges, discussion points, activities, mathematical challenges, and student-life-based applications that will encourage students to think and do.

New to the fifth edition: