Your Brain and Business: The Neuroscience of Great Leaders (42 page)
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Authors: Srinivasan S. Pillay
worry,
39–40
empathy
fairness and,
68
neuroscience of,
61–65
perspective-taking versus,
65–67
enrollment
,
138
errors.
See
leadership errors
executive environment, enhancing with brain science
decreasing threat,
6
developing coaching protocols and tools,
8
providing insights and evidence,
8
providing system for targeted interventions,
8
repackaging,
5
uncovering myth,
6–7
expert performance
,
79–80
,
111–113
F
failure, fear of
,
28
fairness
,
67–71
conscious fear,
28–29
in contextual conditioning,
133
displacing as primary emotion being processed,
32–33
effect on decision making,
31–32
effect on memory consolidation,
168
of failure,
28
fear response in people with cortical blindness,
31
neuroscience of,
104–105
recognizing effects of,
33–35
unconscious fear,
30–31
flexibility
,
238–241
focusing on positive
,
201–202
framing trap
,
18
fronto-parietal cortex
,
112
G
geographic control
,
219
glia
,
109
goals, breaking into component parts
,
210
Goleman, Daniel
,
59
H
Habermacher, Andy
,
1
habit memory systems
,
128–130
heteromodal association areas
,
100
hierarchical social relations, preference for
,
68
hippocampus
change and,
124
contextual conditioning,
132
explained,
188
imagery versus observation,
142
long-term memory,
129–130
novelty seeking,
108
targeted interventions,
207–208
Hippocrates
,
4
honeymoon-hangover effect
,
128
hot reasoning
,
11–12
HPA (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal) axis
attachment anxiety,
81
resilience,
110
I
imagery
,
142–144
Impostor Syndrome
,
104–105
,
230–232
increasing innovation
,
227–230
inequity,
67–71
inferior frontal gyrus
,
113
inferior parietal cortex
deliberative reasoning,
99
in perspective-taking,
66
voice training,
111
information overload
,
123
inhibition
,
93
innovation
increasing,
227–230
neuroscience of,
92–98
processes in,
92
insecure attachment
,
80–82
insights, providing with brain science
,
8
insula
explained,
190
in inequity,
68
intuitive reasoning,
99
insula mapping,
212–214
motivated reasoning,
134
targeted interventions,
211–214
intangibles, coaching interventions on
,
114–115
intentions, mirroring
,
63–65
intraparietal sulcus
advice-giving,
113
imagery versus observation,
142
intuition
in mathematical ability,
111
neuroscience of,
98–101
ironic process theory
,
167–169
isolated leaders
,
9–11
isolation
,
34
K—L
Katzenbach, Jon
,
61
Knoblauch, Chuck
,
167
language, action-oriented
,
144–147
lateral
,
125
lateral orbital cortex
,
134
layoffs, fear of
,
28
leadership errors
anxiety,
13–15
attachments to people/places/things that affect decisions,
16–17
cold reasoning,
11–12
conflicts of interest,
15–16
discomfort with change,
12–13
isolation,
9–11
misleading memories,
17–18
psychological traps,
18–19
table of common assumptions,
19–20
left angular gyrus
,
112
left anterior insula
,
68
left frontal cortex
action-oriented questions,
144–147
commitment to change,
140
semantic distance,
94
left inferior frontal gyrus
,
146
left lateral orbital cortex
,
95
lingual gyrus
,
95
loneliness
,
77–78
LTP (long-term potentiation)
,
130–131
M
Mackey, John
,
175
managerial problems, relevance of brain science to
,
5
managing
ambiguity,
244–249
breach of trust,
241–244
cognitive flexibility,
238–241
emotions,
233–237
mathematical ability
,
111
Mayer, Marissa
,
175
medial
,
125
medial occipital gyrus
,
113
medial posterior cortex
,
66
medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)
,
13
,
62
median OFC
,
99
memory
consolidation,
165–170
misleading memories,
17–18
short-term memory center
explained
,
186
managing emotions
,
234
targeted interventions
,
193–195
short-term memory training,
194
Mendonca, Lenny
,
175
middle frontal gyrus
,
99
middle temporal gyrus
,
113
mindfulness
,
48–51
mirror neurons
body language,
101–103
in empathy,
62–65
intuition,
101
mirror neuron interventions,
218–222
in persuasion,
79
mirrored self-misidentification
,
105–106
misleading memories
,
17–18
motivated reasoning
,
134–136
motor cortex
change and,
124
explained,
189
managing emotions,
236
targeted interventions,
210–211
movement, thought and
,
102–103
mPFC (medial prefrontal cortex)
,
13
,
62
MRI
,
4
myths, debunking
,
6–7
N
NA (nucleus accumbens)
,
188
naps
,
168
Navar, Vineet
,
176
negative emotions, impact on brain
conscious fear,
28–29
displacing fear as primary emotion being processed,
32–33
effect on decision making,
31–32
explained,
27–28
fear response in people with cortical blindness,
31
recognizing effects of fear and anxiety,
33–35
unconscious fear,
30–31
negative thinking
decreasing “brain pain” by focusing attention elsewhere,
36–37
focusing on support rather than social pain,
37–38
impact on brain,
35–40
negative mood states and increase in pain,
39
worry, impact on decision making,
39–40
neurons
defined,
130
relationship to brain change,
158–159
neuroscience,
1–3
.
See also
brain science
novelty-seeking people
,
108–109
nucleus accumbens (NA)
,
188
O
observation
,
142–144
occipital area
,
112
optimism
,
206
benefits of,
40–41
correlation with placebo response,
41–42
impact on amygdala and ACC,
42–46
organizational context for change
,
156
organizational problems, relevance of brain science to
,
5
oxytocin
,
73
P
PAG (periaqueductal gray)
,
196
pain
decreasing by focusing attention elsewhere,
36–37
focusing on support rather than social pain,
37–38
negative mood states and increase in pain,
39
paracingulate cortex, trust activation of
,
73
parietal cortex
,
98
pasticity of brain
,
158–159
pattern recognition
,
98
periaqueductal gray (PAG)
,
196
personal problems, relevance of brain science to
,
5
perspective
changing,
206
cognitive perspective-taking,
65–67
,
223–227
persuasion
,
79–80
pessimism.
See
negative thinking
PFC (prefrontal cortex)
,
31–32
placebo response
,
41–42
place attachments that impact decisions
,
16–17
planning for crisis
,
205
