Truth about Horses A Guide to Understanding and Training Your Horse

Name: Truth about Horses A Guide to Understanding and Training Your Horse
Price: 69.75 USD
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ISBN: 9780764155536

ISBN-10: 0764155539

ISBN-13: 9780764155536

Edition: 2003

Authors: Andrew McLean

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Balancing new scientific research with his practical horse-training experience, author Andrew McLean debunks long-standing myths about horses and presents a far-reaching, totally humane method of horse training. He starts by recognizing vast differences between equine and human brains and mental processes. He describes the traditional trainers mistake of judging horses according to the standards of docile or good horse and bad-tempered or mean horse. The horses brain cannot make abstract judgments about good or bad behavior, but readily responds to conditioning by trainers who understand the equine brain, the instincts that drive it, and a horses way of knowing the world. The author…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
Publication date: 10/1/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 9.25" wide x 11.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

Bill George is professor of management practice at the Harvard Business School and former chairman and CEO of Medtronic, the world's leading medical technology company. He is the author of the Business Week bestselling books Authentic Leadership and True North.Andrew McLean, PhD, has coauthored case studies and articles with Bill George and was the research director for True North. He brings his experience developing higher education programs based on the True North approach.Nick Craig offers expertise in developing and delivering the True North approach with Fortune 500 corporate leadership programs and in his work coaching executives with the Distributed Leadership Model at MIT Sloan… School.