Mindful Leadership

A Brain-Based Framework
Second Edition
Michael H. Dickmann - Cardinal Stritch University
Nancy Stanford-Blair - Cardinal Stritch University
Mindful Leadership
October 2008 | 272 pages | Corwin
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Leadership Solutions

"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 connection
  • Promote social relationships
  • Harness the power of emotion
  • Expedite the construction of knowledge
  • Build a culture of reflection
  • Cultivate 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.

Contents

Preface to the Second Edition: A Refined Framework

Preface to the Second Edition: A Refined Framework

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Authors

Introduction: Tightening the Connection

  • Perception of Connection
  • How the Book Unfolds
  • Your Role

Part 1. Breaking Through

  • 1. A Louis Moment
  • Louis's Moment
  • Breakthrough Happens
  • Shift Follows
  • A Mindful Moment
  • Summary Observations
  • Reader Reflection
  • 2. A New Sense of Nature
  • What's a Brain For?
  • An Intriguing Matter
  • A Definition in Progress
  • A Revealing Moment
  • Summary Observations
  • Reader Reflection
  • 3. A New Sense of Leadership
  • Of Assumed Value
  • Familiar But Elusive
  • Basic in Nature
  • Influenced by Context
  • Theorized in Context
  • Primed to Evolve
  • Summary Observations
  • Reader Reflection
  • 4. A Mindful Framework
  • The Mindful Connection
  • The Meaning of Mindful
  • The Means to be Mindful
  • Attention to Information
  • Articulation of Perception
  • Application to Practice
  • Adjustment From Experience
  • Summary Observations
  • Reader Reflection

Part 2. Minding Revelation

  • 5. Physiological Nature
  • The Physiological Base
  • The Gist of It
  • Essence
  • Implications
  • Reader Reflection
  • 6. Social Nature
  • Getting to Know You and Me and We
  • The Gist of It
  • Essence
  • Implications
  • Reader Reflection
  • 7. Emotional Nature
  • This Emotional Life
  • The Gist of It
  • Essence
  • Implications
  • Reader Reflection
  • 8. Constructive Nature
  • Genius
  • The Gist of It
  • Essence
  • Implications
  • Reader Reflection
  • 9. Reflective Nature
  • Imagine
  • The Gist of It
  • Essence
  • Implications
  • Reader Reflection
  • 10. Dispositional Nature
  • Disposition Fair and Foul
  • The Gist of It
  • Essence
  • Implications
  • Reader Reflection

Part 3. Following Through

  • 11. Mindful Leadership
  • The Mindful Leader
  • Mindful Purpose
  • Mindful Attention
  • Mindful Articulation
  • Mindful Application
  • Mindful Adjustment
  • Mindful Conclusions
  • Summary Observations
  • Reader Reflection
  • 12. Mindful Shift
  • Confronting the Box
  • Pushing Perception
  • Stepping Out
  • Summary Observations
  • Reader Reflection
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index

Additional materials

Description

Leadership Solutions

"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 connection
  • Promote social relationships
  • Harness the power of emotion
  • Expedite the construction of knowledge
  • Build a culture of reflection
  • Cultivate 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.

Contents

Preface to the Second Edition: A Refined Framework

Preface to the Second Edition: A Refined Framework

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Authors

Introduction: Tightening the Connection

  • Perception of Connection
  • How the Book Unfolds
  • Your Role

Part 1. Breaking Through

  • 1. A Louis Moment
  • Louis's Moment
  • Breakthrough Happens
  • Shift Follows
  • A Mindful Moment
  • Summary Observations
  • Reader Reflection
  • 2. A New Sense of Nature
  • What's a Brain For?
  • An Intriguing Matter
  • A Definition in Progress
  • A Revealing Moment
  • Summary Observations
  • Reader Reflection
  • 3. A New Sense of Leadership
  • Of Assumed Value
  • Familiar But Elusive
  • Basic in Nature
  • Influenced by Context
  • Theorized in Context
  • Primed to Evolve
  • Summary Observations
  • Reader Reflection
  • 4. A Mindful Framework
  • The Mindful Connection
  • The Meaning of Mindful
  • The Means to be Mindful
  • Attention to Information
  • Articulation of Perception
  • Application to Practice
  • Adjustment From Experience
  • Summary Observations
  • Reader Reflection

Part 2. Minding Revelation

  • 5. Physiological Nature
  • The Physiological Base
  • The Gist of It
  • Essence
  • Implications
  • Reader Reflection
  • 6. Social Nature
  • Getting to Know You and Me and We
  • The Gist of It
  • Essence
  • Implications
  • Reader Reflection
  • 7. Emotional Nature
  • This Emotional Life
  • The Gist of It
  • Essence
  • Implications
  • Reader Reflection
  • 8. Constructive Nature
  • Genius
  • The Gist of It
  • Essence
  • Implications
  • Reader Reflection
  • 9. Reflective Nature
  • Imagine
  • The Gist of It
  • Essence
  • Implications
  • Reader Reflection
  • 10. Dispositional Nature
  • Disposition Fair and Foul
  • The Gist of It
  • Essence
  • Implications
  • Reader Reflection

Part 3. Following Through

  • 11. Mindful Leadership
  • The Mindful Leader
  • Mindful Purpose
  • Mindful Attention
  • Mindful Articulation
  • Mindful Application
  • Mindful Adjustment
  • Mindful Conclusions
  • Summary Observations
  • Reader Reflection
  • 12. Mindful Shift
  • Confronting the Box
  • Pushing Perception
  • Stepping Out
  • Summary Observations
  • Reader Reflection
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index

Additional materials

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Leadership Solutions

"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 connection
  • Promote social relationships
  • Harness the power of emotion
  • Expedite the construction of knowledge
  • Build a culture of reflection
  • Cultivate 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.


Table Of Contents:

  • Preface to the Second Edition: A Refined Framework
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • Introduction: Tightening the Connection
  • Perception of Connection
  • How the Book Unfolds
  • Your Role
  • Part 1. Breaking Through
  • 1. A Louis Moment
  • Louis's Moment
  • Breakthrough Happens
  • Shift Follows
  • A Mindful Moment
  • Summary Observations
  • Reader Reflection
  • 2. A New Sense of Nature
  • What's a Brain For?
  • An Intriguing Matter
  • A Definition in Progress
  • A Revealing Moment
  • Summary Observations
  • Reader Reflection
  • 3. A New Sense of Leadership
  • Of Assumed Value
  • Familiar But Elusive
  • Basic in Nature
  • Influenced by Context
  • Theorized in Context
  • Primed to Evolve
  • Summary Observations
  • Reader Reflection
  • 4. A Mindful Framework
  • The Mindful Connection
  • The Meaning of Mindful
  • The Means to be Mindful
  • Attention to Information
  • Articulation of Perception
  • Application to Practice
  • Adjustment From Experience
  • Summary Observations
  • Reader Reflection
  • Part 2. Minding Revelation
  • 5. Physiological Nature
  • The Physiological Base
  • The Gist of It
  • Essence
  • Implications
  • Reader Reflection
  • 6. Social Nature
  • Getting to Know You and Me and We
  • The Gist of It
  • Essence
  • Implications
  • Reader Reflection
  • 7. Emotional Nature
  • This Emotional Life
  • The Gist of It
  • Essence
  • Implications
  • Reader Reflection
  • 8. Constructive Nature
  • Genius
  • The Gist of It
  • Essence
  • Implications
  • Reader Reflection
  • 9. Reflective Nature
  • Imagine
  • The Gist of It
  • Essence
  • Implications
  • Reader Reflection
  • 10. Dispositional Nature
  • Disposition Fair and Foul
  • The Gist of It
  • Essence
  • Implications
  • Reader Reflection
  • Part 3. Following Through
  • 11. Mindful Leadership
  • The Mindful Leader
  • Mindful Purpose
  • Mindful Attention
  • Mindful Articulation
  • Mindful Application
  • Mindful Adjustment
  • Mindful Conclusions
  • Summary Observations
  • Reader Reflection
  • 12. Mindful Shift
  • Confronting the Box
  • Pushing Perception
  • Stepping Out
  • Summary Observations
  • Reader Reflection
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

The theme of my course in the spring 2012 on Leadership and Ethics will draw from Langer's (1989) notion of "Mindfulness" and this text fits perfectly. Thanks."
Dr Carlos Figueroa, Government, University of Texas - Brownsville
“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
"This is simply the most important book I have ever had the pleasure of learning from and using in my practice. It informs leaders about what they need to know to effectively attend to the learning needs of individuals, thereby allowing them to positively affect organizational adaptability and capacity.”
Delise Neely, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, WI
“The framework helps the 'leader-reader' understand the connections between leadership and the workings of the brain.”
Guylene Robertson, Assistant Superintendent, Cleveland ISD, Conroe, TX
"While there is necessary technical information, the authors make it as understandable as possible and provide clear examples at just the right time. They also provide just the right amount of humor to keep the book very readable.”
Jeffrey Loftus, History Teacher and Department Chair, Cedar Park Middle School, Portland, OR

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