Can one person do both?
• Everyone is endowed with the ability to use both hemispheres of the brain, even though some are more comfortable using one hemisphere more frequently. “Executive Stewardship” is a whole-brain activity. The left side of the brain is dominant in the management function because management is a function imposed on things, such as the procedural knowledge of finance. On the other hand, the right side of the brain dominates when the leadership function engages because leadership involves people, not things. Without sensitivity, one cannot be an effective consensus builder. Team building activities, motivational and inspirational activities and judgments of fairness and equity are important leadership skills and they occur when one engages the right hemisphere of their brain.
