IN CONCLUSION
A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come.
GERALD EDELMAN (1995)
I opened this book with a story about an organization that needed to redefine the way its people spoke to one another. The woman showing me around was unsure if this was even remotely possible.
Yet as we’ve learned, change is more than possible: It’s happening inside us at an extraordinary pace, with millions of new connections created every second inside our head. Our brain is constantly looking to improve its own structure in any way that will make the world it interacts with more cohesive.
As leaders managing people who are paid to think, it’s time we learned more about how to improve the thing we’re paying ...