Managing brains, not bodies, in the knowledge economy

Source: http://sharpbrains.com/blog/2016/06/21/managing-brains-not-bodies-in-the-knowledge-economy/

pink_brain

[Photo: Flickr user_DJ_, Brian Snelson via Wikimedia Commons]

This Outdated Approach To Productivity Is Bad For Your Brain (Fast Company):

“Your car has parts that perform specific tasks. The radiator cools the engine. The spark plugs ignite the gas. The intake manifold distributes air and gas evenly to the cylinders. We think of a car this way because a car is a machine.

For most of the 20th century, scientists mapped the brain in the same way…This machine paradigm for the brain is a model of Industrial Age …

Source: http://sharpbrains.com/blog/2016/06/21/managing-brains-not-bodies-in-the-knowledge-economy/

pink_brain

[Photo: Flickr user_DJ_, Brian Snelson via Wikimedia Commons]

This Outdated Approach To Productivity Is Bad For Your Brain (Fast Company):

“Your car has parts that perform specific tasks. The radiator cools the engine. The spark plugs ignite the gas. The intake manifold distributes air and gas evenly to the cylinders. We think of a car this way because a car is a machine.

For most of the 20th century, scientists mapped the brain in the same way…This machine paradigm for the brain is a model of Industrial Age …

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