Have you ever wondered [strike]whether[/strike] how the brains of managers work? New research from a group of German neuroscientists and management experts reveals all: Dissociated Neural Processing for Decisions in Managers and Non-Managers
The results were rather remarkable:
Using fMRI, the researchers found that managers' brains were less active in a number of areas, compared to the brains of non-managers, when doing the same task. By contrast, managerial brains were more active than the others only in one small area (caudate nucleus). See above.
So overall, managers had less brain activation during the task. Does that mean they have defective brains? Could this be a neurobiological explanation for the behaviour of Pointy Haired Boss and David Brent?
Not at all, say the authors. The lower activation in the brains of managers means that they were more efficient:
the managers might have found a more efficient way of sorting the presented ...
