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When Apple fanatics lined up to get the new iPhone in 2011, the New York Times published an op-ed titled “You Love Your iPhone. Literally.” It described an unpublished experiment in which the author scanned the brains of 16 people as they heard and watched audio and video of ringing or vibrating iPhones. The scans showed activity in the insular cortex—an area that activates when someone experiences love. “Subjects’ brains responded…as they would respond to the presence or proximity of a girlfriend, boyfriend, or family member,” the author wrote. “They loved their iPhones.”

Dozens of neuroscientists cosigned a letter to the Times condemning the article, noting that one-third of all neuroimaging studies reveal activity in the insular cortex. It’s active when people sense temperature changes or even just breathe. In fact, in 2007 the Times itself had published an op-ed showing that the same area of the brain was engaged when subjects felt the opposite of love. Titled “This Is Your Brain on Politics,” the article linked activity in the insular cortex to disgust and asserted that it was particularly strong in men who saw the term “Republican.” Scientists wrote a letter protesting that article, too.

The two op-eds are examples of something scientists call “brain porn”: mainstream media reports that vastly oversimplify neuroscience research—and fuel a burgeoning industry of neuroconsultants who suggest that they can unlock the secrets of leadership and marketing from the brain. Though these articles’ conclusions are dubious, most of them are based on data from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans, a primary tool of neuroscience. The technology allows us to peer into brains as they work, to see thinking as regions of the brain become more or less active.

These powerful images offer temptingly simple explanations for complex phenomena. But the problem is, fMRI doesn’t necessarily show causation. What’s more, thinking and behavior don’t map onto brain regions one-to-one. You can’t scan someone’s brain while he watches commercials and tell if he prefers Coke or Pepsi. You can’t scan two CEOs’ brains and tell which person is the better leader. Insula activity alone doesn’t prove that you feel about your phone the way you feel about your mother.

To truly understand how neurological processes affect management, leadership, and marketing, we must separate fact from fiction, resist facile narratives, and establish a more sophisticated view of brain science.

And that’s exactly what’s beginning to happen. Because of a confluence of factors—technological advances in fMRI, newly applied statistical techniques, and even President Obama’s announcement of a brain-mapping initiative—neuroscientists are adopting a new and better framework for their discipline. It shifts the focus from studying the activation of brain regions to learning how networks of brain regions activate in concurrent patterns. It’s like going from using video from a single surveillance camera at a crime scene to do detective work to using footage from multiple cameras positioned in different locations.

The new tools and approaches have already produced new insights into the biology of our minds and deepened our understanding of concepts crucial to managers, including:

how to enable creative thinking

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how to structure rewards

the role of emotion in decision making

the opportunities and pitfalls of multitasking

The network-based view isn’t nearly as sexy as the current popular view of neuroscience. Good neuroscience based on the network view is more complex. Messier. But good science is messy.

We fully expect other neuroscientists to contest the claims we make here; the science is so nascent that much is still under debate, and new research is updating what we know about the brain almost every second. Nevertheless, we feel confident about giving an “interim report” on the neuroscientific findings of the past 15 years that now have considerable empirical support.

As a former colleague of ours says, “Neuroscience has taught us surprisingly little about how the mind works, but it’s taught us a few things extremely well.” Those few things are what this article is about. Brain scientists have now identified as many as 15 brain networks and subnetworks. We’ll present the four that have the most consistent backing of neuroscientists: the default, reward, affect, and control networks. They’re widely accepted as core neural networks, and their roles are starting to be well understood—along with their implications for managers.

The Default Network: How to Unlock Breakthrough Innovation

One of the most exciting discoveries in neuroscience in the past decade is that the brain is never truly at rest. During wakeful periods when your brain is not focused on any particular thought (when your mind is wandering or you’re just plain “zoning out”), a distinct network of brain regions still fires up. We call it the “default” network. It’s also sometimes referred to as the “task negative” network because it’s engaged when people aren’t concentrating on a task. The mere discovery of this network has been groundbreaking: We now know that the brain spends considerable time processing internalized existing knowledge, not just new information from the five senses.

The default network is also responsible for one of our most prized abilities: transcendence. The capacity to envision what it’s like to be in a different place, a different time, a different person’s head, or a different world altogether is unique to humans and most potent when the default network is highly engaged. During transcendence, people’s brains “detach” themselves from the external environment, meaning they stop processing external stimuli.

This discovery leads us to believe that having unfocused free time is an important (and underutilized) factor in breakthrough innovations. That notion obviously calls to mind the “20% time” policy at Google, under which the company’s engineers get a day a week to work on whatever they want. Other companies have followed suit: Maddock Douglas, a marketing firm, gives employees 100 to 200 hours a year to work on anything that interests them. BrightHouse, a consulting firm, offers its staff five “Your Days” a year to reflect and simply free-associate. Intuit has launched a 10% program much like Google’s. Twitter holds Hack Week, during which employees experiment and develop ideas away from their day-to-day duties. And at the software firm Atlassian, developers get “ShipIt Days,” in which they have 24 hours to work on projects that intrigue them but, like an express shipper, have to deliver something overnight.

No doubt such programs have their benefits; unassigned time for creativity has long been known to enhance workers’ sense of self-sufficiency, happiness, and motivation. But discoveries about the default network make us think these programs pro

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