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Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work (Paperback)
by David Rock
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Author: David Rock
Publisher: Collins
Pub. in: October, 2007
ISBN: 0060835915
Pages: 288
Measurements: 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA01147
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0060835910
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This is one of the first books I read and completed, cover to cover, which is a statement in itself. Reading this book gave me a lot of clarity about what is wrong with organizations today. Workers are being told to 'think', yet the typical management approach is based on telling them what to do, which clearly inhibits thinking.
While this idea might be obvious, it's not being addressed enough. Without more focus on improving the quality of thinking at work we're not going to see an increase in performance or engagement above the abysmal levels they are now.
This book attempts to do something hard: to bring a hard science to the soft art of leadership While some of the science is still in it's infancy, it's encouraging to see that efforts are being made in this direction.
Many academics might think this it's dangerous to make loose connections between fields, many business people like myself feel this is urgent...how do we improve the leadership skills of senior executives, without a supportive science, even a new one?
The idea of learning to facilitate insight in other people as a way to speed up ideas, learning and deepen engagement is counter-intuitive at first. Once you think about it though, it is clear that all intelligent people only act decisively when they have thought through an issue themselves. The fact that this book shows you step-by-step how to build this skill set makes it required reading for every manager. Learn to help people think better as a leader, and everyone wins.
(From quoting Leadership Coach, USA)
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David Rock is a leadership coach, teacher, and public speaker who advises corporations around the world. He is the CEO of Results Coaching Systems, and for the past several years has been studying the impact of coaching on performance and the links between coaching and neuroscience.
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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.
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Library Journal, USA
<2008-01-25 00:00>
From the title, this work sounds subdued. But Rock (CEO, Results Coaching Systems; Personal Best) actually grounds his ideas in dynamic discoveries about how the human brain works. Typical management approaches to changing behavior fail to account for the surprising differences in how each person processes information and solves problems. Rock suggests that it's far more effective to build new neural pathways to learn new habits than to deconstruct old ones. Transforming performance involves listening and communicating in more positive and effective ways. The ultimate goal of quiet leadership is to empower employees to think and solve problems for themselves. This highly practical guide includes exercises for each major concept introduced, giving readers a chance to practice what they've learned. A brief bibliography highlights research for further reading.
Recommended for public library business collections.
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Marshall Goldsmith (MSL quote), USA
<2008-01-25 00:00>
Quiet Leadership will help you improve other people's thinking, which is the best place to begin improving performance. |
Jeffrey Schwartz (MSL quote), USA
<2008-01-25 00:00>
In the first major book to explore what business leaders ought to know about the brain, David Rock creatively marshals an abundance of new research to coherently explain how it advances the use of mind-based brain change as the dynamic element of better leadership training. The key to the future of leadership development lies in these pages. |
Art Kleiner,Editor in Chief,Strategy & Business Magazine, USA
<2008-01-25 00:00>
Success depends on the quality of thinking. In the past, if we wanted to change our habitual forms of thinking, we operated in the dark - because nobody had taken the cutting-edge insights of neuroscientists and rephrased them in ordinary language or a business context. Now David Rock has exactly that, and done it well. |
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