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Oct 1, 2007

"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn." --Peter F. Drucker

Wired For Leadership?

When participants in a trial at Arizona State University were asked to think about the future, levels of brain activity varied significantly between those considered visionaries and non-visionaries. Visionaries showed much higher levels of brain activity than non-visionaries in areas of the brain associated with visual processing and organization of information. The visionary leaders had more efficient left brains, which deal with logic and reasoning, and better connected right brains, which are responsible for social skills. Head researcher Pierre Blathazard hopes to be able to first understand the neurological differences and then create tools and techniques for training others to develop similar capacities. (PDF, 160KB)