The Leadership Brain

About the Book

This book is about enhancing leadership, teamwork, and neurodiversity. Here are some testimonies: “What makes this book so rich is the context in which Peter deals with leadership and neuroscience. He looks at the key issue of diversity and the effect it has on leadership. He also deals with diversity from two different yet related perspectives, mental diversity and cultural diversity, as well as gender and genetic personality differences.” “A practical, easy-to-read yet academically sound book gives the reader a nice balance between the global and macro issues of diversity and leadership, as well as the micro and nitty-gritty issues of personality differences in teams and organizations. Well-researched data has been succinctly edited in very readable terms. This book includes updated research of the research with excellent references at end of back chapter.” “The subject of leadership has probably had more behavioral scientist, writers, and independent thinkers in management—putting their views across. This book takes the often controversial subject onto a higher plain by exploring how leaders can use whole brain thinking to address the challenges of leading and motivating people of diverse background. By knowing our own genotype, personality, and cultural values, we come to understand why our style of leadership is the way is.” “This book is about enhancing team leadership and organizational culture. A powerful way to understand diversity in organizations is to approach it from the whole-brain perspective. As all our behavior is directed or controlled by our thinking and feeling processes initiated in the brain, the book helps us discover these.” “The whole-brain model, with a mix of cognitive and emotional influences, helps managers or team leaders better understand why people are different. These differences are a key component of neurodiversity, which the book addresses in a clear and comprehensive manner. The author has woven into this model the many other aspects of leadership of diverse employees such as culture, gender, and personality.”

About the Author

Although he was born in England, he started his career and undergraduate studies in New Zealand. This was in agricultural and veterinary science. He worked initially for the New Zealand government and then joined a leading, global, US based, pharmaceutical company. Later he worked for a major international airline, before moving to Australia to enter the Management Consulting profession, and later to Malaysia, where he now lives. His first doctoral degree (PhD) was in international management and culture. His second doctoral degree (D. Litt.) was on the influence of culture and personality in whole brain thinking and learning. He is Executive Chairman of the CREDO Trust and Trustee of the CREDO Foundation. He is also Chairman of the Cambridge Academy of Management (UK) and a Director of Cambridge Global Learning (UK). He is an Adjunct Professor at Binary University of Management and Entrepreneurship, where he does research and teaches Leadership, Strategic Management and Human Resources Management, at postgraduate level. Peter is a partner in a Talent Management Consultancy which specializes in organizational and individual assessment of competency and talent. He also offers Executive and Life Coaching in Cross Cultural Management. He loves travel and currently coaches clients in several S.E.Asian countries and teaches in Africa and the Middle East and regularly visits the UK to keep in touch with his friends, academic and business associates. He has written seven books in the areas of: Self and Career Management, Whole Brain Learning, Thinking and Behaviour and this book on Leadership and Neuroscience.