All the Brains in the Business, Paul Brown
All the Brains in the Business, Paul Brown
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All the Brains in the Business
The Engendered Brain in the 21st Century Organization

Author: Paul Brown, Kate Lanz

Narrator: Ann Richardson

Unabridged: 5 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/30/2021


Synopsis

The power of gender difference, not gender equality, is a secret source for success. Some smart businesses are starting to wake up to this fact. This audiobook 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 pure 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.Leading applied neuroscientists and international corporate coaches Kate Lanz and Paul Brown show you why and how to access all the brains in your business.

About Paul Brown

Dr. Paul Brown is a consulting clinical and organizational psychologist, executive coach, and supervisor. He was chairman of the Association for Professional and Executive Coaching and Supervision, APECS; has been Visiting Professor in Organizational Neuroscience at London South Bank University and in Individual and Organizational Psychology at Nottingham Law School; started the first MSc in Organizational Neuroscience; and is now Professor of Organizational Neuroscience, Monarch Business School, Switzerland. He consults and teaches widely, especially in Southeast Asia.

About Kate Lanz

Kate Lanz is founder and CEO of Mindbridge, an executive coaching and business performance consultancy specializing in applied neuroscience. Before consulting and coaching, she held senior international roles in business, notably with Diageo. 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.

About Ann Richardson

Ann Richardson is an Earphones-winning narrator who studied broadcast journalism and Spanish at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Years later, the desire to take up a creative yet productive career lead her to narrating audiobooks and founding Great Plains Audiobooks, an audiobook publishing company focusing on bringing Midwestern literature to audio.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason

Kate Lanz and Paul Brown’s "All the Brains in the Business: The Engendered Brain in the 21st Organisation" is a short but impactful work. Lanz and Brown lay out their guiding premise in the book’s Preface – they want to address our societal loss of rejoicing in the differences between men and women......more

Goodreads review by Trevor

I have been looking for a plain-English overview of the most recent research regarding sex differences in the neurosciences. This book is by far the best account I can find, as of January 2020. It is well-researched and clear about how many of the differences impact male/female interaction in the wo......more

Goodreads review by Mrs B

A thought-provoking read, which challenges the view that men and women are created equal. Instead, the authors articulate the physical/neuroscientific/hormonal brain differences between the sexes, and offer frameworks and guidance for businesses in embracing those differences in order to maximise pr......more


Quotes

“This book provides invaluable insight in how we can access all the brain power available to our business, so that as a business we thrive by enabling our teams and individuals to be at their very best.” Alex Vaughan, CEO, Costain Group PLC