Een interessant artikel over de relatie tussen hersenonderzoek en organisatieverandering: The Neuroscience of Leadership.
Enkele citaten uit het artikel:
- “Rather than lecturing and providing solutions, effective coaches ask pertinent questions and support their clients in working out solutions on their own”.
- “People experience what they expect to experience.”
- “Employees need to ‘own’ any kind of change initiative for it to be succesful.”
- Human brains are so complex and individual that there is little point in trying to work out how another person ought to reorganize his or her thinking. It is far more effective and efficient to help others come to their own insights”.
- “Given the small capacity of the working memory, many small bites of learning, digested over time, may be more efficient that large blocks of time spent in workshops. The key is getting people to pay sufficient attention to new ideas ….”
- “In a world with so many distractions, and with new mental maps potentially being created every second in the brain, one of the biggest challenges is being able to focus enough attention on any one idea.”
- “Is the answer to all the challenges of change just to focus people on solutions instead of problems, let them come to their own answers, and keep them focused on their insights? Apparently, that’s what the brain wants“.
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