A Revolutionary Way to Lead the Many and the Few — Beginning with YOU
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WHAT REALLY BLEW UP THE WORLD'S ECONOMY?
And other dangers of "normal thinking"
A new book by a pioneering executive
coach and a prizewinning investigative reporter suggests that most leaders
today are hampered by obsolete thinking.
Quicksilver:
A Revolutionary Way to Lead the Many and the Few—Beginning with YOU, argues
that a storm of technologically driven social change has made the future
unmanageable with the current use of the brain.
A perfect illustration, say the authors, was the global
economic meltdown of 2008, which resulted not from "mistakes" but from
"dangerously normal thinking."
"Quicksilver offers
the most brilliant analysis I've seen of the economic meltdown of 2008," says
Michael D. Connelly, CEO of Catholic Healthcare Partners. "It helps leaders
wake up."
Drawing on the insights of cognitive psychology and the
revolutionary discoveries of neuroscience, the book concludes that nothing less
than a fundamentally new way of thinking is needed to meet today's challenges.
Based on three decades of the executive coaching work of Dr.
Michael O'Brien, Quicksilver lays out
the personal practices necessary to actually change the brain in order to
succeed in our increasingly unpredictable world. The practices are designed to
use stress (the greater the stress, the greater the potential) to literally
create new brain tissue that enables new perceptions, exposing new options that
are otherwise invisible.
Other
Comments
"This book should be required reading for all people
in management and leadership positions at this time in our history. As we try
to shed the leadership philosophies that got us into the mess Michael so
clearly describes early in the book, Quicksilver should be our guide."
—Marvin P.
Mitchell, Chair, Division of Media Support Services, Mayo Clinic
"This is the best leadership book I've seen."
—Jim Gauss, CEO Witt/Kieffer
Review and promotion copies, and high-resolution photography, available upon
request. Dr. Michael O'Brien and Larry Shook are also available for interviews
by phone (Cincinnati, OH and Spokane, WA-based). Special feature story
inquiries and email interview questions welcomed.
