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The Fear-free Organization: Vital Insights from Neuroscience to Transform Your Business Culture

Paul Brown

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Description for The Fear-free Organization: Vital Insights from Neuroscience to Transform Your Business Culture Paperback. Draws on the new frontiers in neuroscience to explain why using power, threats and subtle scare tactics is a huge corporate mistake. Running on fear has no profit in it: this book offers an alternative organizational path to success. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JMJ; KJM; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
Evidence from neuroscience shows that individuals and organizations are more successful when people are encouraged to take risks, explore new ideas, and channel their energies in ways that work for them. And yet many organizations are filled with bullies, vicious gossip, undermining behaviours, hijacking tactics, political jockeying for position, favouritism and other factors that instil fear and impede productivity. It is no wonder that organizations are actively looking at how they can improve and maintain the psychological health and wellbeing of their employees to the benefit of all concerned. The Fear-free Organization reveals how our new understanding of the neurobiology ... Read more

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Publisher

Kogan Page Ltd

Format

Paperback

Publication date

2015

Condition

New

Number of Pages

256

Place of Publication

London, United Kingdom

ISBN

9780749472955

SKU

V9780749472955

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99-50

About Paul Brown

Dr Paul Brown is Faculty Professor, Organizational Neuroscience, Monarch Business School Switzerland; Honorary Chairman of the Vietnam Consulting Group and International Director of SIRTailors. He is a clinical and organizational psychologist and executive coach. Joan Kingsley is a consultant clinical and organizational psychotherapist. She is Honorary Consultant Psychotherapist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and is ... Read more

Reviews for The Fear-free Organization: Vital Insights from Neuroscience to Transform Your Business Culture

"I wish I had read something like this a long time ago. In my decades as a corporate leader, I observed and learned the hard way about a lot of themes in the book.... I came to know these things were real over the years but never really understood why they were happening until reading this book."
Thomas M. ... Read moreBotts, retired Executive Vice President, Royal Dutch Shell
"Beautifully written, clearly structured and brimming with compelling case studies, this new work transports us into the psychological core of organizational life and provides us with rich recipes for understanding the complex and often tortured dynamics of the workplace."
Professor Brett Kahr, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the London Centre for Child Mental Health
"If you work in an organization, you already know this: fear runs the place. What you may not know is that fear is going to ruin it, too, sooner or later. This book tells us why. Then it tells us how to change that."
Nancy Kline, author of Time to Think
"The jewel in the crown of all the recent books on this subject... All leaders of complex organizations should have this book by their bedside and their office."
Professor Patrick Pietroni, Director, Centre for Psychological Therapies in Primary Care, University of Chester
"This book superbly explains what is really going on together with fascinating insights on the fears that all of us have experienced in the workplace and which have such a destructive effect on culture. And then the authors provide some practical advice on how to change things for the better."
Charlie Geffen, Chair, London Corporate, Gibson Dunn
"[T]he essential manual for effective management. It provides the practical methods needed to motivate people to do their best work. The authors explain, simply and understandably, how to apply the most advanced neuroscientific insights to business management. It is ground breaking and indispensable."
Dotson Rader, Contributing Editor, Parade
"Fear pervades the workplace. It corrodes profits and stunts growth. This essential read equips CEOs with the tools to build a fear-free environment -and success."
Robin Morgan, CEO, Iconic Images
"[I]t outlines a range of effective, practical strategies to help build a healthier environment that can deliver real and measurable benefits to the individual, teams and the organization - the fear-free organization."
Dr Brian Marien, Founder and Director of Positive
"Leadership is about making sense, and this book makes a lot of sense. I highly recommend it for leaders, and those who aspire to become one."
Rien Herber, former Shell Executive and Professor at Groningen University
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