Intro
Acknowledgments
Introduction
A Definition
The Creative Model
Leadership is Quite Demanding
Exploring the Capabilities and Limitations of the Brain
A Disciplined Process
Contents
Contents
About the Authors
1 Leadership, Followership, and Context
The Great Man
Domination and Control
Power Based on Fear
Power as a Relationship
Legitimate Authority
Fusional Leadership
Trait Approach of the Great Man
From Innate Qualities to Competencies that can be Acquired
Too Much Attention to the Leader
Influence of the Context

Focusing on the Leadership Process
Situational Leadership
Transformational Leadership
Charismatic Leadership
Leadership of Collaboration and Learning
The Interwoven Texture of Leadership and Followership
Exploration and Execution
Leading and Managing Are Mutually Supportive
Exploring New Visions and Perspectives
Execution and Experimentation
Importance of Context and Culture
When the Context is not Right
Creating the Proper Context and Culture
The Creative Leadership Model
From the Easy to the Hard Way
An Explicit Leadership Model as Reference

The Limit of Prescriptive Models
Leaders Still Disappoint
Neuroscience can Help
Why Did the Taylorian Bureaucratic Model Spread so Easily
References
2 A Straightforward Rational Managerial Model
Industrial Revolution and Mass Production
Division of Labor and Standardization
The Scientific Organization of Work. A Rational Approach
The Taylorian Approach Was Grafted onto the Bureaucratic Model
The Strategic Vision
A Command-And-Control Leadership Style
A Rigid Context
A Transactional Culture
Hiring
Rewarding

Resilience of the Taylorian Bureaucratic Model
The Fixed Model of Leadership
Three Main Dimensions of the Fixed Model
A Range of Possibilities
Reference
3 A Brain in Three Dimensions
Why Do we and Other Animals Have a Brain?
Vertical Integration: The Triune Brain
The Instinctual or Reptilian Brain
The Emotional or Limbic Brain
The Cognitive or Cerebral Brain
Cognitive Externalization
Left-Right Integration
The Right Hemisphere
The Left Hemisphere
The Left-Brain Interpreter
Back-to-Front Integration
From Perception to Abstraction
Perception

Frontal Cortex
Prefrontal Cortex
From Perception to Conscious Processing and Action
Central Executive
Working Storage
The Magic Number Seven
The Theater Stage
References
4 A Very Emotional Brain
Revisiting the Notion of Rationality
Rational-Emotional Dichotomy
The Emotional Brain Plays a Crucial Role in Reasoning
A Useful Brain Valuation System
What is the Point of Emotion?
Emotions are Action Programs
Emotional Intelligence
The Bias of Emotional Reasoning
The Emotional Tail Wags the Rational Dog
The Political Brain
Court Decisions