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All the Brains in the Business The Engendered Brain in the 21st Century Organisation

:	Kate Lanz, Paul Brown
:	All the Brains in the Business The Engendered Brain in the 21st Century Organisation
:	Palgrave Macmillan
:	9783030221539
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:	Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft
:	English

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< >The power of gender difference, not /i>gender equality, is a secret source for success. Some smart businesses are starting to wake up to this fact. This book explores why and how.
Properly valuing brain gender diversity in the workplace is one of the biggest and largely untapped sources of competitive advantage for modern businesses. Recent advances in neuroscience provide the key to unlocking it.
Modern research shows that there are gender-based differences in the brain - it's just not as simple as a binary between a 'male brain' and 'female brain'. In fact, our brains are like a mosaic where many of the tiles are available in thousands of shades on a spectrum between pink and blue. The problem is that our workplaces tend to be governed by structures, processes and cultures that are practically pur blue. All the brains in the business that are elsewhere on the spectrum cannot thrive as they might, so sources of productivity, creativity and agility go untapped.
Anyone who manages people needs to understand how the brain works and the impact it has on how people work together as teams. Anyone who wants to unlock the talent and productivity of all of their people needs to understand how recent findings around male- and female-type brains should shape the way they manage.
Leadin applied neuroscientists and international corporate coaches Kate Lanz and Paul Brown show you why and how to access all the brains in your business.

Kate Lanz is Founder and CEO of Mindbridge, an executive coaching and business performance consultancy specialising in applied neuroscience. Before consulting and coaching she held senior international roles in business, notably with Diageo, where at the time, she was the only female and the youngest International General Manager. Kate's fascination with accessing individual motivation at work led to her second degree, a BSc in psychology, before she went on to an MBA and now her ongoing doctoral research into brain gender difference in business. She has a wide variety of clients, from hedge funds to multinationals in Singapore, Beijing, South and Central America, the USA, the Middle East, Europe and the UK and is senior Coaching Faculty at INSEAD. She is also an accredited coach supervisor.
r. Paul Brown is a consulting clinical and organisational psychologist, executive coach and supervisor. He was Chairman of the Association for Professional and Executive Coaching and Supervision, APECS; has been Visiting Professor in Organisational Neuroscience at London South Bank University and in Individual and Organisational Psychology at Nottingham Law School; started the first MSc in Organisational Neuroscience; and is now Professor of Organisational Neuroscience, Monarch Business School, Switzerland. He is an External Adviser to the International Energy Research Centre, the Tyndall Institute, University of Cork, Ireland and is the Association for Coaching's Global Ambassador for Applied Neuroscience. He consults and teaches widely, especially in Southeast Asia.

	Preface	6
	Acknowledgements	11
	About This Book	12
	Contents	16
	List of Figures	20
	1 Brain Sex and Biological Sex	21
	The Case for Creating Optimal Brain Conditions	21
	The Sex of Your Brain	22
	Brain and Biological Sex—Key Differences Between the Male and Female Brain	23
	Structural Differences Between the Male and Female Brain	23
	Blood Flow and Connectivity Differences Between the Male and Female Brain	24
	Hormones	26
	A Look at the Impact of Nature on the Developing Brain	27
	The Brain in Utero	27
	The First Two Years of the Developing Brain—The Beginnings of the Impact of Nurture on Nature	28
	Puberty and Brain Development	29
	Social Context and Its Influence on Brain Development	30
	Getting to Know the Sex of Your Brain	31
	Summary: Why Waste Brain Power at Work?	33
	References	34
	2 Conditions for Optimal Brain Function	36
	The Strong Case for Biology as the Basis of Behaviour	36
	A Story to Start a Metaphor May Help	37
	A Newtonian Moment in Time	38
	Brains Emerging into Being Observable Organs	41
	Two New Brain-Related Sciences to Take on Board	43
	Why We Are Each Unique	45
	References	47
	3 Survive, Thrive and Flow	48
	The Search for Identity as the Basis of What the Differences Are	50
	And Now It Gets Emotional	52
	References	56
	4 Brain Sex-Based Attention and Communication	57
	Attention ? Attention ?	57
	Tuning in to Faces and Feelings	58
	Staying Connected and Seeking Approval	59
	Emotional Tones	60
	Gut Feelings	61
	Mirroring	62
	Language—Spoken and Unspoken	62
	Empathy—The Magic of Intuition	64
	Attention and Communication in the Workplace	64
	Case Study—The Deal	64
	Summary	66
	References	67
	5 Power, Politics and Pressure	69
	Hierarchy and the Male Brain	69
	Competition—The Neurobiology	70
	Collaboration—The Neurobiology	71
	Case Study—Financial Services Recruitment	72
	Matching Behaviours Mistaken for Low Confidence	73
	Office Politics—Workplace Culture and the Dominant in Group	74
	The Positive Impact of Office Politics	75
	Case Study—Going the Extra Mile Behind the Scenes	76
	The Neurochemical Double Bind	77
	Summary—The Testosterone Conundrum	78
	References	79
	6 Problem Solvers and Solution Seekers—The Difference Between Intra-compared with Inter-hemispheric Connectivity	81
	The Problem-Solving Male Brain	83
	The Collaborative Female Brain	84
	Going Out for Dinner or Staying at Home!	85
	A Woolly Mammoth in the Workplace?	85
	Valuing the Difference	86
	Powerful Discrimination—A New Concept for Accessing the Best of the Brains in the Business	86
	What Underpins the Value in Powerful Discrimination?	87
	Woolly Mammoths Are Easy to Spot—A Case Study	88
	Accessing the Best of Both Sex Brains—The Gendersmart Solution Spectrum™	91
	Summary	93
	References	94
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