pLeadership is the habit of making good choices. Even in difficult and uncertain circumstances, the most effective leaders focus their attention and overcome entrenched patterns of behavior to push an organization to new heights of success. This capability is no fluke the latest research on the brain shows that we can pinpoint the mental activity associated with it--and cultivate it for our benefit.ppIn this book, Art Kleiner, a strategy expert Jeffrey Schwartz, a research psychiatrist and Josie Thomson, an executive coach, give a transformative explanation of how cutting-edge neuroscience can help business leaders set a course toward better management. Mapping the functions of a manager onto established patterns of mental activity, they identify crucial brain circuits and their parallels in organizational culture. Strategic leaders, they show, play the role of emwise advocatesem able to go beyond day-to-day transactional behavior to a longer-term, broader perspective that articulates