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The Brain: Saboteur or Success Partner? Exploring the Role of Neuroscience
in the Workplace
Sharmila Sivalingam
Abstract:
The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report has identified
Cognitive Flexibility as one of the top ten skills for organizations to
thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0), which is the
ability to let go of an old way of thinking and adopt a new way of
thinking; the ability to fluidly unlearn and relearn, to survive and
thrive in an uncertain environment. Identifying cognitive flexibility as a
key workplace skill displays the importance of integrating neuroscience
into the practical applications of the corporate world. This article
explores this integration and its evolution, the importance that
employees, leaders and teams understand how the human brain functions, how
it impacts how they perform in the workplace, how their brain is wired
differently from the people they work with, how they can train their
brains to partner in their success and how organizations today can nurture
a brain-diverse workplace.
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