Left Brain
is responsible for: |
Right Brain
is responsible for: |
Logic |
Emotions,
creativity,
imagination |
Words |
Pictures, color |
Numbers |
Dimension |
Lists |
Daydreaming |
Linearity |
Spatial
awareness |
Sequence |
Rhythm |
Parts and
specifics |
The big picture:
wholes and relationships among the parts |
Analysis
(breaking apart) |
Synthesis
(putting together) |
Sequential
thinking |
Simultaneous and
holistic thinking |
Is time-bound,
has a sense of time and goals and your position in relation to those
goals |
Is time free,
might lose a sense of time altogether |
Governs the
right side of your body |
Governs the left
side of your body |
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"As we apply brain dominance theory to the
three essential roles of organizations, we see that the manager's role
primarily would be left brain and the leader's role right brain. The
producer's role would depend upon the nature of the work. If it's verbal,
logical, analytical work, that would be essentially left brain; if it's more
intuitive, emotional, or
creative work, it would be right brain. People who are
excellent
managers but
poor leaders may be extremely well organized and run a tight
ship with superior systems and procedures and detailed job descriptions. But
unless they are
internally motivated, little gets done because there is no
feeling, no heart; everything is too mechanical, too formal, too tight, too
protective. A looser organization may work much better even though it may
appear to an outsider observer to be disorganized and confused. Truly
significant accomplishments may result simply because people
share a
common vision,
purpose, or sense of
mission,"
~ Stephen Covey.
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Thinking
Systems
Systemic
Systematic
Paradigms
Lateral
Outside the Box
Inventive
Positive
Extraordinary
Milestone-based
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