Make Your Brain Work

How to Maximize Your Efficiency, Productivity and Effectiveness

Amy Brann

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781789660548
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Personal Success

Do you know how your brain functions? Do you sometimes feel like you're fighting your own brain and habits in order to be productive at work? What if there was a way to work with your brain to become more efficient, effective and productive... and transform the way you operate? Make Your Brain Work is here to help. Author Amy Brann is fascinated by the application of brain science to business, and you don't have to be an expert to understand - she explains the principles and latest insights in practical and easy-to-understand language, enabling you to understand the way you work, and form the helpful habits that will revolutionize your output. With clear, in-context examples; hands-on tips; and focused case studies on how companies are doing things well and the pitfalls to avoid, this entertaining book will help you reduce the stress and overwhelm of poor time management, and help get you to that next professional level. Including brand-new content on developing resilience and creativity, and managing your work-life balance, now it's even easier to Make Your Brain Work!

Index

appearing competent to others (and) 209–23

brain areas 218–19 see also boxes

emotions and memory 220

episodic versus semantic 217–18 see also Damasio, A

how to predispose yourself to having more insights 212–13, 212

insights 211 see also boxes

leading with your brain switched on: threat response 230

priming (and) 221–23

MYBW top benefits for understanding the process of remembering stuff 223

MYBW top tips for remembering stuff 222

real or fabricated 214–17 see also boxes

situation 210

unconscious memories 220–21

why you forget (and) 213–14 see also boxes

improving your memory 213

working memory 219

Beeman, M 202–03

Bennis, W 244

Blakemore, C 145

experiments with cats 145 see also upgrading your life

boxes (for) check if any of these need subs

appearing competent to others

brain areas: swimming rats 218–19

brain areas: hippocampus maps 219 see also O’Keefe, J

creating false memories 215

false memories 215

neuroscience of an insight 211 see also Jung-Beeman, M

power of imagination 216 see also Loftus, E F

real improvement vs changing starting block 217 see also Conway, M

why you forget: memory jogging 214

the challenge of being everything to everyone

ambient neural activity = busy brain 75

a culture of more than psychological safety

are all tech start-ups super cool? 254–55

can it really work? 253

feeling connected 250

power of expectation 254

Project Aristotle 251

the reward response 252

science behind psychological safety 246

temperature check: measuring psychological safety 248

the training room 245

VW’s challenge 249

what is psychological safety? 244 see also Bennis, W; Kahn, W; Schein, E

working memory 247

leading with your brain switched on

celebration: neuroscience of celebration 238

certainty: company certainty – Innocent 237

contribution: Veneziana pizza 242

leaders today: leadership and management 228

mirror neurons: six senses 233

mirror neurons: staff 233

mirror neurons: Zappos – Tony’s confidence 234–35 see also Hsieh, T

managing people, managing brains

fairness: inside unfairness 266

fairness: pain in the brain 265–66

social reward: inside reward 267

trust: to trust and to be trustworthy 260

trust game 262

the minefield of motivating people

mood and motivation: the power of state 174–75

power of confidence: meeting Griff 172–73

power of control: addicted rats 169 see also D...