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Product Description
Improving the performance of your employees involves one of the hardest challenges in the known universe: changing the way they think. In constant demand as a coach, speaker, and consultant to companies around the world, David Rock has proven that the secret to leading people (and living and working with them) is found in the space between their ears. “If people are being paid to think,” he writes, “isn’t it time the business world found out what the thing doing th… More >>
Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work
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#1 by Mr. David Rock on April 17, 2010 - 12:29 am
FROM ‘LIBRARY JOURNAL’
From the title, this work sounds subdued. But Rock (CEO, Results Coaching Systems; Personal Best) actually grounds his ideas in dynamic discoveries about how the human brain works. Typical management approaches to changing behavior fail to account for the surprising differences in how each person processes information and solves problems. Rock suggests that it’s far more effective to build new neural pathways to learn new habits than to deconstruct old ones. Transforming performance involves listening and communicating in more positive and effective ways. The ultimate goal of quiet leadership is to empower employees to think and solve problems for themselves. This highly practical guide includes exercises for each major concept introduced, giving readers a chance to practice what they’ve learned. A brief bibliography highlights research for further reading.
Recommended for public library business collections.
MARSHALL GOLDSMITH
“Quiet Leadership will help you improve other people’s thinking, which is the best place to begin improving performance.”
JEFFREY SCHWARTZ, MD
“In the first major book to explore what business leaders ought to know about the brain, David Rock creatively marshals an abundance of new research to coherently explain how it advances the use of mind-based brain change as the dynamic element of better leadership training. The key to the future of leadership development lies in these pages.”
ART KLEINER, EDITOR IN CHIEF, STRATEGY & BUSINESS MAGAZINE
“Success depends on the quality of thinking. In the past, if we wanted to change our habitual forms of thinking, we operated in the dark–because nobody had taken the cutting-edge insights of neuroscientists and rephrased them in ordinary language or a business context. Now David Rock has exactly that, and done it well.”
MIKE MORRISON, DEAN, UNIVERSITY OF TOYOTA
“Rock has broken the code on how to leverage our most basic human function–thinking! He brings both art and science to the necessary steps for leaders to follow in elevating the thinking of their employees in support of world-class performance. Both practical and profound–a must read for anyone who wants to unleash the true potential of their team!”
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Jo-Anne LifeCoach on April 17, 2010 - 3:20 am
This is the path to self actualization. I’ve tried everything education, mediation, and Landmark. But thanks to David for making this all clear to me I will never look at the world the same way again
I will never tell people what to do at work and I realise now how disempowered and angry I was when my boss told me what to do and I’m not going to be telling any one any more!! David has taught me not to tell people what to do and David’s very strong advice to us all is not to give advice to others and I’m not going to any more – I’m going to let them work it all out for themselves. Ask ask ask!!
David has inspired me to really listen to other people. Get along to one of his seminars to hear him talk if you can. You will learn so much from this man. He is one of the most approachable Life Coaches I have ever listened too. He really cares about his followers and he relates to others in a very different way from normal people – he shows you a whole new way to relate to others too.
I call him the “Stephen Hawkins” of Life Coaching !! Now I know how to make my own neural connections. Thanks to David I’m now on the path to real self-enlightenment.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Maureen Miller on April 17, 2010 - 5:13 am
Very powerful book. I’ve seen and read lots of comparisons and charts on the difference between coaching and therapy but this article is quite clear, in a very simple yet profound way, of the differences between the two. I believe that to treat a anyone other way than in a “brain-based” way is to do them an incredible disservice. To focus on problems and the past is pretty useless.
Since reading “Quiet Leadership”, I can no longer look at human interaction in any other way. When someone tries to tell me what to do or give me advice, I find it quite annoying and insulting. I AM quite capable of coming up with my own solutions IF someone asks me the right questions. I no longer depend on someone else to do that. I just ask myself. To know WHY it was annoying is even more empowering.
I hold a part time job in the field of Education and to see someone “burying” a student in advice, Information and focussing on a problem relentlessly, just irks me. I now just ask a “thinking: question. Its amazing how grateful students can be when they are held: capable, accountable and responsible.
Its amazing the way my clients appreciate being held able.
Its amazing to see inspiration and action in my life every day now.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Leadership Coach on April 17, 2010 - 5:51 am
This is one of the first books I read and completed, cover to cover, which is a statement in itself. Reading this book gave me a lot of clarity about what is wrong with organizations today. Workers are being told to ‘think’, yet the typical management approach is based on telling them what to do, which clearly inhibits thinking.
While this idea might be obvious, it’s not being addressed enough. Without more focus on improving the quality of thinking at work we’re not going to see an increase in performance or engagement above the abysmal levels they are now.
This book attempts to do something hard: to bring a hard science to the soft art of leadership While some of the science is still in it’s infancy, it’s encouraging to see that efforts are being made in this direction.
Many academics might think this it’s dangerous to make loose connections between fields, many business people like myself feel this is urgent…how do we improve the leadership skills of senior executives, without a supportive science, even a new one?
The idea of learning to facilitate insight in other people as a way to speed up ideas, learning and deepen engagement is counter-intuitive at first. Once you think about it though, it is clear that all intelligent people only act decisively when they have thought through an issue themselves. The fact that this book shows you step-by-step how to build this skill set makes it required reading for every manager. Learn to help people think better as a leader, and everyone wins.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Frank Mosca on April 17, 2010 - 6:38 am
There are any number of reasons to be pleased and excited about David Rock’s new book, but first and foremost is that it really takes seriously the notion that people are themselves the solution to their own problems. David teaches people how to utilize their ability to reason and think their way through difficulties. The old proverb about teaching someone to fish rather then merely giving them one good meal applies fully here. The other important advantage to this work is that it is a fully developed method that can be applied by the reader immediately not only to situations in business, but to practically any human, personal issue that might arise. Get the book and see how within a brief time you can get yourself past a whole series of roadblocks. It’s good news for those of us who, like myself a coach, therapist and professor with experience teaching many subjects including positive psychology,are fully supportive of self actualization, the enlarging of the frame of freedom for individuals with all that means for personal and executive contexts of all kinds. It is a comfortable natural fit that will amaze you with the power of its understated simplicity and its ability to evoke potentials for you, your employees, your family and friends.It sets a new standard for the coaching field to emulate and employ to improve the workplace and beyond.
Rating: 5 / 5