Unless we are in physical danger few of us think we are living 'under
threat'. Yet our brains believe we are at risk many times a day. Nowhere
is this more true than at work, where our response to deadlines, budget
cuts, abrasive managers, competitive colleagues and dissatisfied
customers is too often controlled by a part of our brain that's better
suited to detecting, devouring or running away from predators. This is
our threat brain, and on its own it is little help in dealing with the
complex challenges of organisational life. In Beyond Threat, business
psychologist and international management consultant Dr. Nelisha
Wickremasinghe takes us beyond the threat brain and describes the
workings of our evolved Trimotive Brain which can respond with
intelligence and compassion to unwanted, unexpected and unpleasant life
experiences - if we learn how to manage it. This book is an invitation
to: discover how our biological heritage (nature) and individual
experience (nurture) combine to create who we are-and why that matters
in organisational life; learn to notice and re-direct the hidden motives
that control most of our behaviour-especially those arising from our
threat brain; and find out, in three detailed case studies, how
executives working in different corporate environments identified and
overcame the problem habits arising from their overactive threat brain.
*** An extraordinarily informative and exceptionally well organized
and presented study, 'Beyond Threat' will prove to be of immense and
practical value for anyone having business management responsibilities.
Thoroughly accessible for both academia, corporate executives,
non-specialist general readers, 'Beyond Threat' is a critically
important and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, corporate,
community, and academic library Business & Management, Organizational
Change, Business Psychology, and Organization Development instructional
reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists. --The
Midwest Book Review, Small Press Bookwatch, The Business Shelf, March
2018 [Subject: Business & Management, Organizational Change, Business
Psychology, Organization Development]
