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Right Brain/Left Brain President
Barack Obama's Uncommon Leadership Ability and How We Can Each Develop It
Right Brain/Left Brain President
Barack Obama's Uncommon Leadership Ability and How We Can Each Develop It
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This intriguing analysis examines an aspect of President Obama that falls outside of his ethnic background, his political career, or policies: how his unique leadership style comes from his extraordinary ability to use both halves of his brain to maximum potential.
Right Brain/Left Brain President: Barack Obama's Uncommon Leadership Ability and How We Can Each Develop It is an inspirational guide to leadership as it should be practiced, conveyed through an up-close look at the man who sets the new leadership bar. Author Mary Lou Décosterd uses her Right Brain/Left Brain Leadership Model to frame Barack Obama's leadership skill sets. Her book shows that Obama's unique brand of leadership is the result of his extraordinary ability to leverage full-brain potential in the ways he thinks, decides, and acts.
Right Brain/Left Brain President examines Obama's life and the Obama phenomenon, analyzing how he rose to prominence so quickly and what that teaches us. The president is used as an example of the ten full-spectrum behaviors—the must-have leadership skills—that make one an extraordinary leader. To help readers emulate the Obama model and become the most consummate leaders possible, Décosterd discusses how each of us can learn to lead from both right and left brain abilities.
Table of Contents
Series Foreword
Foreword
1 The Obama Phenomenon
Leading with Both Sides of His Brain
At First Blush
Intelligence Personified
From Intellect to Action
Passion and Attitude
Constructive Intolerance
His Human Side
Making History
The Phenomenon Recapped
2 The Nature/Nurture of Leadership
A Life Juxtaposed
The Luck of the Draw
Influences, Experiences, and Moments
Heritage Recapped
Leadership and the Brain
A Leadership-Perfect Form
3 Right- and Left-Brain Potentials
A Leadership Model
Right Brain/Left Brain: Counterintuitive
A Leader's Line of SITE
The MEGA Mind
The Plus Factors
Model in Context
4 Obama: Leading from the Right?
Strategic Intent
An Innovative Approach
A Transformational Imperative
Engaging Underpinnings
Noting Breadth and Depth
5 Obama's Vision Realized
Methodical: A Call to Action
Expressive Excellence
Grounded: Responsible with a "Capitol" R
True Assertive
Right Brain/Left Brain Summary
6 Obama and the Plus Factors: Sealing the Deal
Resilient Energy
Positive Thinking, Obama-Style
What He Does and How He Does It
Recharging the Energy Battery
Savvy 101
Fundamental Awareness
Power and Influence
Perception as Reality
Defining Moments
7 Becoming More Obama-Like
From Values to Actions
Leadership Must-Haves
Your Call to Action
Tools of the Trade
Summary Thoughts
Parting Inspirations
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Product details
Published | 09 Apr 2010 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 192 |
ISBN | 9780313380730 |
Imprint | Praeger |
Series | Contemporary Psychology |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Barrack Obama uses logical and analytical thinking as well as intuitive and creative thinking in his leadership style. This book combines ideas from neuroscience and leadership studies with many excerpts from Obama's speeches and interviews, using Obama's leadership skill set as an example of the right brain/left brain leadership model developed by
the author. Focus is on four different sets of traits: strategic, innovative, transformative, and engaging leadership traits. The book gives background on how the brain is structured for right- and left-brain leadership engagement, then looks at how Obama's personal background enables him to engage both sides of his brain with ease, and provides readers with tools and steps for using the same leadership approaches. Décosterd is a leadership consultant and executive coach.Reference & Research Book News

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