« Collaborative news survey | Main | Time for an Oil Change? » "The Neuroscience of Leadership"Silona gave me a link to an article that summarizes the neuroscience behind leadership and change (requires registration). If you preach, you get resistance. It's better to "to focus people on solutions instead of problems, let them come to their own answers, and keep them focused on their insights," because "that's what the brain wants." [Link] ...some of the most successful management change practices have this type of principle ingrained in them. “Open-book management,” for example, has been credited with remarkable gains at companies like Springfield Remanufacturing, because it repeatedly focuses employees’ attention on the company’s financial data. Toyota’s production system, similarly, involves people at every level of the company in developing a fine-grained awareness of their processes and how to improve them. In both of these approaches, in workplace sessions that occur weekly or even daily, people systematically talk about the means for making things better, training their brains to make new connections. If you took an fMRI scan of a Springfield or Toyota employee when that person joined the company and again after 10 years on the job, the two scans might reveal very different patterns. jon posted this at 7:06 PM |
read weblogsky! latest posts: |
