The Wise Advocate
The Inner Voice of Strategic Leadership
by Art Kleiner; Josie Thomson; Jeffrey Schwartz
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Pub Date Jan 29 2019 | Archive Date Mar 25 2020
Columbia University Press | Columbia Business School Publishing
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Description
In this book, Art Kleiner, a strategy expert; Jeffrey Schwartz, a research psychiatrist; and Josie Thomson, an executive coach, give a transformative explanation of how cutting-edge neuroscience can help business leaders set a course toward better management. Mapping the functions of a manager onto established patterns of mental activity, they identify crucial brain circuits and their parallels in organizational culture. Strategic leaders, they show, play the role of wise advocates: able to go beyond day-to-day transactional behavior to a longer-term, broader perspective that articulates their organization’s deeper purpose. True leaders can play this influencer role in an organization because they have cultivated similar self-reflective habits in their own minds. Providing a powerful guide to decision strategies and their consequences, The Wise Advocate helps managers find their own inner voice and then make that voice ring out loud and clear, with a four-step program for practice and catalytic implications for management strategy, executive education, and business results.
Advance Praise
"The Wise Advocate is a key book for aspiring leaders aiming to make the best—and hardest—choices. The authors provide a practical guide to decision making through a combination of neuroscience concepts, a process of self-reflection, and consideration of the greatest good for the people one must lead."
-Marshall Goldsmith, author of Triggers, MOJO, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780231178044 |
| PRICE | $29.95 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Reviewer 186721
If there is one thing that I want to focus on in 2019, that is to be aware of my breath and alos take deep breaths like Matt, the creator of wordpress has advised. While reading of mentalizing, I could recall some instances where I have done exactly that and came out feeling powerful. Great strategy enhancing tools like meta awareness, meta attention that are sure to provide immense benefits have been disucssed at large with many interesting psychology and brain studies.
Linda S, Librarian
THE WISE ADVOCATE by Art Kleiner, Jeffrey Schwartz, and Josie Thomson focuses on Strategic Leadership, particularly in relation to what we know about neuro-science and how are brains work. The authors describe a wise advocate as "the person who believes, and can inspire others to believe, that the problem is worth solving; that it cannot be solved in conventional ways; ... that a new way of looking at things is available to them; and that they can all make a difference together if they act on this belief." Two types of leadership – transactional ("exchanging gratifications") and transformative (more adaptive and strategic) – are discussed. Given increasingly complex issues and problems, they recommend calling on the "inner wise advocate" and use a variety of scenarios (from running a large international plant to personal setbacks at work) in order to illustrate their points about the need to reframe and think differently about a situation. Throughout the text, they emphasize "habits of mind" which will lead to better decisions and outcomes.
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