Babson’s Thornton Encourages Leaders to Rethink Their Thinking

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elizabeth Thornton, Babson College Professor of Management Practice for Babson’s Executive Education, and Adjunct Lecturer of Entrepreneurship, has a new book titled The Objective Leader: How to Leverage the Power of Seeing Things as They Are. This book offers a framework for understanding how objectivity can help leaders make smarter decisions and get better results. Thornton interviewed hundreds of professionals and drew upon her 30 years of corporate management experience to develop this approach to helping individuals rewire the subjectivity of the human mind to increase objectivity in all areas of their lives.

In this publication, the author details how losing a million dollars was the best thing that ever happened to her, forcing her to learn how the inability to see things as they are can have personal, organizational, national, and global consequences.

In addition to her teaching roles, Elizabeth Thornton was also Babson’s first Chief Diversity Officer. She has over 15 years of corporate experience with institutions such as American Express and Bank One, and more than 15 years of consulting and entrepreneurial experience. She developed a new curriculum called the Principles of Objectivity, which she teaches to graduate students and corporations through Babson’s Executive Education, using it as a guiding principle for leaders and entrepreneurs to balance their subjectivity and passion with their ability to be objective.

For more information on Elizabeth Thornton or her new book, visit the Babson College Web site.

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