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Right Brain/Left Brain President: Barack Obama's Uncommon Leadership Ability and How We Can Each Develop It
Author(s): Mary Lou Décosterd (Author), Christopher C. Shoemaker (Foreword)
- Publisher: Praeger
- Publication Date: April 9, 2010
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 192 pages
- ISBN-10: 0313380724
- ISBN-13: 9780313380723
Book Description
This intriguing analysis examines an aspect of President Obama that falls outside of his ethnic background, his political career, or policies: how his unique leadership style comes from his extraordinary ability to use both halves of his brain to maximum potential.
Right Brain/Left Brain President: Barack Obama’s Uncommon Leadership Ability and How We Can Each Develop It is an inspirational guide to leadership as it should be practiced, conveyed through an up-close look at the man who sets the new leadership bar. Author Mary Lou Décosterd uses her Right Brain/Left Brain Leadership Model to frame Barack Obama’s leadership skill sets. Her book shows that Obama’s unique brand of leadership is the result of his extraordinary ability to leverage full-brain potential in the ways he thinks, decides, and acts.
Right Brain/Left Brain President examines Obama’s life and the Obama phenomenon, analyzing how he rose to prominence so quickly and what that teaches us. The president is used as an example of the ten full-spectrum behaviors―the must-have leadership skills―that make one an extraordinary leader. To help readers emulate the Obama model and become the most consummate leaders possible, Décosterd discusses how each of us can learn to lead from both right and left brain abilities.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Barrack Obama uses logical and analytical thinking as well as intuitive and creative thinking in his leadership style. This book combines ideas from neuroscience and leadership studies with many excerpts from Obama’s speeches and interviews, using Obama’s leadership skill set as an example of the right brain/left brain leadership model developed by
the author. Focus is on four different sets of traits: strategic, innovative, transformative, and engaging leadership traits. The book gives background on how the brain is structured for right- and left-brain leadership engagement, then looks at how Obama’s personal background enables him to engage both sides of his brain with ease, and provides readers with tools and steps for using the same leadership approaches. Décosterd is a leadership consultant and executive coach.” ―Reference & Research Book News
