It must be WSJ week… Here is an interesting article from WSJ about the differences in brain activity between a visionary leader and a non-visionary leader. Pierre Balthazard, Arizona State University management professor, indicates that the visionary leaders use their brains differently than others.
The brain-wave analysis highlights differences in the patterns for visionary leaders: more efficient left brain (logic and reasoning) and better connected right brains (social skills). Professor Balthazard hopes to use this information to promote brain-training for leadership-development.
This certainly takes the argument of effective leaders are made not born a step further. What do you think, will we see assessments of EEG brain activity levels as a requirement for promotions? Maybe they should be given to current CEOs, board members, … It could go hand in hand with the study that links success of firms to the personal lives of their CEOs.
It is too early to say… But, it would be interesting to see the metrics and of course the conclusions of this study. In the meantime, I could certainly enjoy the process of getting my brain’s EEG mapped 
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