Neuroleadership is an emerging trend in the field of management. As we look at the importance of global leadership in our ever-changing business environment, we find a connection between our way of thinking and our leadership and decision-making style. Below are several articles related to this topic. Please choose 2-3 articles from below to read on the subject and then evaluate and discuss the rise of neuroleadership in the human resource and organizational development disciplines.  Articles: David Rock. (2013).  T + D, 67 (10), 84-85 .  Dr. David Rock presented on the brain science behind performance at PeopleFluent global user conference WISDOM 2015. (2015, Mar 10).  Business Wire. Dr. David Rock presents 'the brain science behind performance' at PeopleFluent WISDOM 2015. (2015). Professional Services Close - Up. Fox, A. (2011). Leading with the brain.  HRMagazine, 56 (6), 52-53 .  In an interview, David Rock, founder of the NeuroLeadership Institute, talked about how scientists' growing understanding of the brain illuminates techniques for leadership and decision-making. Rock said mindfulness is the ability to be meta-cognitive or to think about your thinking. Labeling is the ability to put words on your mental state -- for instance, to articulate when you are feeling anxious. All involve an area of the brain that is central for self-regulation -- the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. Researchers are discovering that self-regulation -- regulating emotion, regulating your thoughts, regulating your attention -- is essential in leadership. The optimal leader is adaptive. Leaders have to know when to be dogmatic in their beliefs and when to be collaborative, when to get granular and when to be big-picture-focused. To be adaptive, you must have an integrated brain. A big part of the creative process is using your non-conscious brain, because the problems being tackled are simply too big for conscious processing resources. Hogan, T. (2010). Neuroscience provides tools to navigate the new business reality.  People and Strategy, 33 (4), 8-9 .  The four domains of NeuroLeadership; problem solving, emotion regulation, collaborating and facilitating change provide an interesting lens through which to examine the field of global leadership development. Leaders today face greater challenges than ever before as they work across multiple geographies, functions, product lines and national cultures. Neuorscience provides a useful framework for understanding how leaders gain insights while learning to work in new ways across traditional boundaries in a borderless world. Leaders, therefore, need to be able to see and process information in new ways, making connections between phenomena that have never been linked before in their minds. This is systems thinking, and it is the hallmark of resourceful and innovative leaders throughout history . Kiefer, T. (2010).  Neuroleadership-more than another leadership framework.  People and Strategy, 33 (4), 1.

1. Neuroleadership is an emerging trend in the field of
management. As we look at the importance of global leadership
in our ever-changing business environment, we find a
connection between our way of thinking and our leadership and
decision-making style. Below are several articles related to this
topic.
Please choose 2-3 articles from below to read on the subject and
then evaluate and discuss the rise of neuroleadership in the
human resource and organizational development disciplines.
Articles:
David Rock. (2013).
T + D, 67
(10), 84-85
.
Dr. David Rock presented on the brain science behind
performance at PeopleFluent global user conference WISDOM
2015. (2015, Mar 10).
Business Wire.
Dr. David Rock presents 'the brain science behind performance'
at PeopleFluent WISDOM 2015. (2015). Professional Services
Close - Up.
Fox, A. (2011). Leading with the brain.
HRMagazine, 56
(6), 52-53
.

2. In an interview, David Rock, founder of the NeuroLeadership
Institute, talked about how scientists' growing understanding of
the brain illuminates techniques for leadership and decision-
making. Rock said mindfulness is the ability to be meta-
cognitive or to think about your thinking. Labeling is the ability
to put words on your mental state -- for instance, to articulate
when you are feeling anxious. All involve an area of the brain
that is central for self-regulation -- the ventrolateral prefrontal
cortex. Researchers are discovering that self-regulation --
regulating emotion, regulating your thoughts, regulating your
attention -- is essential in leadership. The optimal leader is
adaptive. Leaders have to know when to be dogmatic in their
beliefs and when to be collaborative, when to get granular and
when to be big-picture-focused. To be adaptive, you must have
an integrated brain. A big part of the creative process is using
your non-conscious brain, because the problems being tackled
are simply too big for conscious processing resources.
Hogan, T. (2010). Neuroscience provides tools to navigate the
new business reality.
People and Strategy, 33
(4), 8-9
.
The four domains of NeuroLeadership; problem solving,
emotion regulation, collaborating and facilitating change
provide an interesting lens through which to examine the field
of global leadership development. Leaders today face greater
challenges than ever before as they work across multiple
geographies, functions, product lines and national cultures.
Neuorscience provides a useful framework for understanding
how leaders gain insights while learning to work in new ways
across traditional boundaries in a borderless world. Leaders,
therefore, need to be able to see and process information in new
ways, making connections between phenomena that have never
been linked before in their minds. This is systems thinking, and

3. it is the hallmark of resourceful and innovative leaders
throughout history
.
Kiefer, T. (2010). Neuroleadership-more than another
leadership framework.
People and Strategy, 33
(4), 10-11
.
The author is in the process of designing a new leadership
program. He experiences the frustration of more than 60,000
leadership books. He decides to go a different route: Design a
change program with the "learner's brain in mind" -- by
combining deep emotional moments that require peak attention
from participants and finally bring participants to generate their
own insights and takeaways. Neuroscience has started to impact
leadership development and it will further shape it.
NeuroLeadership is more than a framework. It influences entire
training designs and approaches -- on multiple levels: 1. value
of leadership programs, 2. training design and investment, and
3. understanding fundamentals of how the brain works.
Lafferty, C. L., & Alford, K. L. (2010). NeuroLeadership:
Sustaining research relevance into the 21st century.
S.A.M.Advanced Management Journal, 75
(3), 32-37,39-40,2
.
Moving beyond the voluminous research on management
leadership that focuses on psychology and behaviorism, the
newest field of investigation, NeuroLeadership, looks inside the
brain to analyze what might affect leadership abilities. MRI
technology has provided the breakthrough, because it maps
brain functions in real time reacting to real stimuli. This paper
discusses how neuroscience may affect four domains of

4. leadership: decision-making and problem-solving, emotion
regulation, collaboration and influence, and facilitating change.
Of particular interest is the role of stress and its influence on
change, collaboration, and memory.
Rock, D. (2010). Impacting leadership with neuroscience.
People and Strategy, 33
(4), 6-7
.
A 2008 study showed that 'improving leadership' was the second
most urgent human capital imperative for most companies'
business strategies. Up until now, most of the leadership
theories evolved out of behavioral observations, or through
social psychology research. It appears that this approach has not
delivered what it was supposed to do. Recent developments
within neuroscience have given people the ability to shed some
new light on how the brain functions in real time. This new
brain research may provide the missing link between leadership
behavior and leadership development. Since 2007, there has
been an effort to gather relevant neuroscience findings into a
new field called 'NeuroLeadership.' NeuroLeadership explores
the neuroscience underpinning four key leadership skills, called
the four domains of NeuroLeadership. Using neuroscience to
explain leadership issues now is happening across major
corporate, government and non-profit organizations, including
NASA, the National Defense University, Citibank, Microsoft
and other firms around the globe.
Rock, D. (2011). NeuroLeadership.
Leadership Excellence, 28
(8), 11-12
.
People in leadership positions are often logical, analytical
thinkers. But the human brain is a social organ. Its reactions are

5. directly shaped by social interaction. Although work is often
seen as economic transaction, in which people exchange labor
for financial compensation, the brain experiences the workplace
first and foremost as a social system. Indeed, the ability to
intentionally address the social brain in the service of optimal
performance will become a distinguishing leadership capability.
Five social qualities enable leaders to minimize the threat
response and enable the reward response: status, certainty,
autonomy, relatedness, and fairness (SCARF). The SCARF
model helps alert you to people's core concerns and shows you
how to calibrate your words and actions. The more practiced
you are at reading yourself the more effective you will be.