The Wise Advocate

Art Kleiner, Jeffrey Schwartz, and Josie Thomson

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.

1. The Choice of the Moment2. Low and High Ground3. Finding Your Inner Voice4. Relabeling Your Messages5. Reframing Your Situation6. Refocusing Your Attention7. Revaluing Your LeadershipAcknowledgmentsNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex