SPOKANE, Wash., March 23 A NEW BOOK BY A PIONEERING EXECUTIVE COACH and a prizewinning investigative reporter suggests that most leaders today are hampered by obsolete thinking.
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Quicksilver: A Revolutionary Way to Lead the Many and the Few--Beginning with YOU, argues that a storm of technologically driven social change has made the future unmanageable with the current use of the brain.
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A perfect illustration, say the authors, was the global economic meltdown of 2008, which resulted not from "mistakes" but from "dangerously normal thinking."
"Quicksilver offers the most brilliant analysis I've seen of the economic meltdown of 2008," says Michael D. Connelly, CEO of Catholic Healthcare Partners. "It helps leaders wake up."
Drawing on the insights of cognitive psychology and the revolutionary discoveries of neuroscience, the book concludes that nothing less than a fundamentally new way of thinking is needed to meet today's challenges.
Based on three decades of the executive coaching work of Dr. Michael O'Brien, Quicksilver lays out the personal practices necessary to actually change the brain in order to succeed in our increasingly unpredictable world. The practices are designed to use stress (the greater the stress, the greater the potential) to literally create new brain tissue that enables new perceptions, exposing new options that are otherwise invisible.
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"This book should be required reading for all people in management and leadership positions at this time in our history. As we try to shed the leadership philosophies that got us into the mess Michael so clearly describes early in the book, Quicksilver should be our guide."
--Marvin P. Mitchell, Chair, Division of Media Support Services, Mayo Clinic
"This is the best leadership book I've seen."
--Jim Gauss, CEO Witt/Kieffer
Review and promotion copies, and high-resolution photography, available upon request. Dr. Michael O'Brien and Larry Shook are also available for interviews by phone (Cincinnati, OH and Spokane, WA-based). Special feature story inquiries and email interview questions welcomed.
For more information, see: http://www.QuicksilverLeader.com and http://www.ObrienGroup.us.
Available for purchase online at: http://www.QuicksilverLeader.com
Or in paperback or Kindle edition at Amazon.com
QUICKSILVER: A Revolutionary Way to Lead the Many and the Few- Beginning with YOU By Dr. Michael O'Brien and Larry Shook List $15.95 Paperback, 248 pp ISBN-13: 9781934738214 ISBN-10: 1934738212 Published by Sombrero Press January 2010
SOURCE Dr. Michael O'Brien and Larry Shook
