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Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work
David Rock
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Description for Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work
Paperback. Quiet leaders are masters at bringing out the best performance in others. They improve the thinking of people around them - improving the way their brains process information - without telling anyone what to do. This book provides a brain-based approach that helps executives and managers improve their own and their colleagues' performance. Num Pages: 288 pages, 27 pieces of black and white line art throughout. BIC Classification: KJMV2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 289 x 19. Weight in Grams: 232.
Improving human performance involves one of the hardest challenges in the known universe: changing the way people think. In constant demand as a coach, speaker, and consultant to companies around the world, David Rock has proven the secret to leading people (and living and working with them) is found in the space between our 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, for the first time, a brain-based approach that will help busy leaders, executives, and managers improve their own and their colleagues' performance. Quiet leaders are masters at bringing out the best performance in others. They improve the thinking of people around them - literally improving the way their brains process information - without telling anyone what to do. Given how many people in today's companies are being paid to think and analyse, improving our thinking is one of the fastest ways to improve performance. This book offers a practical, six-step guide to making permanent workplace performance change by unleashing higher productivity, new levels of morale, and greater job satisfaction.
Product Details
Publisher
HarperBusiness
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780060835910
SKU
V9780060835910
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99-99
About David Rock
David Rock is a consultant and leadership coach who advises corporations around the world. The author of Coaching with the Brain in Mind, Quiet Leadership, and Personal Best, he is the CEO of Results Coaching Systems, a leading global consulting and coaching organization. He is on the advisory board of the international business school CIMBA and the cofounder of the NeuroLeadership Institute and Summit. He lives in Sydney, Australia, and New York City.
Reviews for Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work
"This highly practical guide includes exercises for each major concept, giving readers a chance to practice what they've learned."
Library Journal "Quiet Leadership will help you improve other people's thinking, which is the best place to begin improving other people's performance."
Marshall Goldsmith, founder of Marshall Goldsmith Partners; named one of the 50 greatest thinkers who have impacted the field of management by the American Management Association. "Essential reading for any leader who has ever wondered 'Why don't people do what I tell them to do?.'"
Elisa Mallis, Human Performance Consultant, Accenture, London A quick and useful guide to a softer management style that draws on recent discoveries in the field of neuroscience
Continental Magazine
Library Journal "Quiet Leadership will help you improve other people's thinking, which is the best place to begin improving other people's performance."
Marshall Goldsmith, founder of Marshall Goldsmith Partners; named one of the 50 greatest thinkers who have impacted the field of management by the American Management Association. "Essential reading for any leader who has ever wondered 'Why don't people do what I tell them to do?.'"
Elisa Mallis, Human Performance Consultant, Accenture, London A quick and useful guide to a softer management style that draws on recent discoveries in the field of neuroscience
Continental Magazine