Mindful Leadership: A Brain-Based Framework

By Michael H. Dickmann and Nancy Stanford-Blair

Book Overview

"Carefully researched and updated, yet filled with practical and immediately usable strategies, this is a must-read book for anyone seeking to understand and influence human behavior."
--Pat Wolfe, Educational Consultant

"The most important book I have ever had the pleasure of learning from and using. It gives leaders what they need to effectively meet the learning needs of individuals and positively affect organizational adaptability and capacity."
--Delise Neely, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership
Cardinal Stritch University

Unleash the power of the leadership-brain connection

This updated edition of the groundbreaking book Connecting Leadership to the Brain provides school leaders with a visionary framework for understanding how mindful leadership significantly impacts growth and achievement in educational communities.

Offering an approach compatible with the ways individuals naturally process information and learn, this resource links knowledge about the physiological, social, emotional, constructive, reflective, and dispositional nature of the brain to compatible leadership practice. Leaders will find specific examples and reflection exercises focused on how to:

Support the mind-body connectionPromote social relationshipsHarness the power of emotionExpedite the construction of knowledge Build a culture of reflectionCultivate productive dispositions

Mindful Leadership is an essential companion for helping readers become mindful leaders who consciously attend to the nature of intelligence in the process of influencing the achievement of goals.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412964105
• ISBN13: 9781412964104
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Corwin Publishers
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.9"