Jeffrey Schwartz – författare

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 fluke: 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.

There is nothing more confusing and painful than having your brain take over your thoughts, distort your self-esteem, and rob you of your power by desperately trying to dictate your actions. Your mind sends you misleading messages, and these messages have a reaction from you that affects you physically, health-wise, and psychologically, and begins a never-ending cycle of messages and reactions to them, which leads to permanent negative results. But there is an inner sage, that other side of your waking mind that sees misleading messages for what they are. This unique book helps you discover and identify misleading messages, and divides the misleading messages into tables with your fixed reactions to them, and the negative results to which your reactions lead you, which include: isolation, withdrawal, failure at work and study, weight gain, addiction, indifference. Constant fatigue, and others.After determining what misleading messages are, and how much harm they cause, you will learn about the difference between the mind and the brain, and the solution comes under the title "focusing attention constructively," with the aim of balancing goals and actions, even if the biological makeup of some individuals hinders them more than others. The solution proposed in This book, which consists of four steps, is suitable for everyone. The four saving steps come under the headings: renaming, reframing, redirecting attention, and finally re-evaluation. To get to know them and master them, you must read this book with extreme concentration