Management Rewired: Why Feedback Doesn't Work and Other Surprising Lessons from the Latest Brain Science: How Neuroscience is Revolutionizing Business - Hardcover

Jacobs, Charles S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 159184262X ISBN 13: 9781591842620

Verlag: Portfolio, 2009

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How brain science can help us make smarter management decisions

Businesspeople are taught to make decisions with facts and logic and to avoid emotional bias. But according to the latest research, we almost never decide rationally, despite thinking that we do. Our experiences carry an emotional charge, encoded in the synapses of our neurons. And when we try to deny what our emotions tell us, we lose what we've learned from the past. That's just one of many recent discoveries that help explain why management is so challenging. As Charles Jacobs explains, much of the conventional wisdom taught to managers is not only inadequate, it produces the opposite of what is intended. The better path is frequently counterintuitive.

For example, it turns out that pay doesn't really drive performance. When we do work that's inherently engaging, the neurotransmitter dopamine is released, creating feelings of pleasure not unlike a cocaine high. But when we work primarily for money, the dopamine isn't triggered and it's harder to stay motivated.

Once we understand the lessons of neuroscience, we can create more effective strategies, inspire people to maximize their potential, and overcome the biggest hurdle to improving business performance-making change stick.

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Charles S. Jacobs is managing partner of One Eighty Partners and an adviser to Fortune 500 companies and was also the founder of the Amherst Consulting Group in the 1980s. He has worked in Europe, Asia, and the United States, and his clients include Verizon, Citigroup, Exxon-Mobil, and over fifty of the Fortune 100. He is an active speaker and lecturer.

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• Verlag: Portfolio
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 159184262X
• ISBN 13: 9781591842620
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216
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