Travis, F., H. Harung, and W. Blank, (in review). Higher Development and Leadership: Towards Brain Measures of Managerial Capacity.

Abstract: This paper tested the hypothesis that managerial capacity is determined by the manager’s degree of self-development, operationalized as their level of psychophysiological integration. Twenty Norwegian top-level managers were compared to 20 middle-level managers. High-performing managers were characterized by: higher scores on the Brain Integration Scale, higher moral reasoning, and more frequent glimpses of higher development. The Brain Integration Scale includes: high frontal EEG coherence – integrated functioning of the brain’s executive centers, termed the “CEO of the brain”—along with higher alpha power, and enhanced brain efficiency.  This research provides a multi-level measure of managerial capacity including brain and psychological measures.