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Mindful Leadership
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.
- Grade Level: K-12
- ISBN: 9781412964104
- Published By: Corwin
- Year: 2008
- Page Count: 272
- Publication date: March 07, 2013
Price: $45.95
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Description
—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
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