The Leader's Brain: Enhance Your Leadership Build Stronger Teams, Make Better Decisions, and Inspire Greater Innovation with Neuroscience by Michael L. Platt

BATB score: 8/10 👨‍🏫

hey hey not bad professor! short, concise, to the point, research-driven, fun, with key chapter takeaways, and super actionable 💯

Best as: listening to one of Professor Michael L. Platt, Director of Wharton Neuroscience Initiative, lectures

Best for: as if you are an MBA student at Wharton Business School

Best to: easy morning class and off you go, on to the rest of your day

BATB linger thought: there is a clear gap between a researcher/professor and real-world practitioner/businessman; insights and concepts, the gap between train and platform, to implementation and execution; I guess that’s why professors can only teach

Best quotes: “Leaders should prime their teams to think about something bigger than themselves before delivering difficult news that will require people to change their behavior.”

“By changing key aspects of an option to stand out more (brighter colors, higher contrast, use of faces). You can subtly shape the decision someone makes”

“Too much choice is ‘demotivating’.”

“People empathize with other people - particularly their family and friends - but don’t feel the joy and pain of people they don’t know.”