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Mindful Leadership

A Brain-Based Framework

This updated edition of Connecting Leadership to the Brain provides school leaders with a visionary framework for aligning leadership practices with the nature of human intelligence.

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  • Grade Level: K-12
  • ISBN: 9781412964104
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2008
  • Page Count: 272
  • Publication date: March 07, 2013
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Leadership Solutions

"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.


Key features

  • Examines the implications of breakthroughs in knowledge about brain-enabled intelligence for forming deeper understanding of human nature and leadership
  • Presents comprehensive definitions and descriptions of six aspects of intelligence
  • Offers specific examples of how to connect cutting-edge brain research to leadership practice
  • Provides exercises for proactive reflection

Author(s)

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Michael H. Dickmann
Michael Dickmann is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and the Leadership Center at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He also serves as a leadership, learning, and development consultant to education, corporate, and service organizations. He is coauthor (with Nancy Stanford-Blair) of Leading With the Brain in Mind: 101 Brain-Compatible Practices for Leaders (Corwin Press 2003) and the second edition of Mindful Leadership (Corwin Press 2008).
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Nancy Stanford-Blair

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.

Table of Contents

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

Reviews

Quote by Delise Neely, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, WI: "This is simply the most important book I have ever had the pleasure of learning from and using in my practice. It informs leaders about what they need to know to effectively attend to the learning needs of individuals, thereby allowing them to positively affect organizational adaptability and capacity.”
"This is simply the most important book I have ever had the pleasure of learning from and using in my practice. It informs leaders about what they need to know to effectively attend to the learning needs of individuals, thereby allowing them to positively affect organizational adaptability and capacity.”
Delise Neely, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership
Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, WI
Quote by Guylene Robertson, Assistant Superintendent, Cleveland ISD, Conroe, TX: “The framework helps the 'leader-reader' understand the connections between leadership and the workings of the brain.”
“The framework helps the 'leader-reader' understand the connections between leadership and the workings of the brain.”
Guylene Robertson, Assistant Superintendent
Cleveland ISD, Conroe, TX
Quote by Jeffrey Loftus, History Teacher and Department Chair, Cedar Park Middle School, Portland, OR: "While there is necessary technical information, the authors make it as understandable as possible and provide clear examples at just the right time. They also provide just the right amount of humor to keep the book very readable.”
"While there is necessary technical information, the authors make it as understandable as possible and provide clear examples at just the right time. They also provide just the right amount of humor to keep the book very readable.”
Jeffrey Loftus, History Teacher and Department Chair
Cedar Park Middle School, Portland, OR
Quote by Pat Wolfe, Educational Consultant: “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.”
“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

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