"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." - Mark Twain In the second installment of this blog series we discussed learning from errors and how that improves operational effectiveness. Furthe we learned information in the brain is [...]
"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other." - John F. Kennedy The first installment of this blog series defined terms relating to leadership and how negative outcomes within organizations can be avoided with good leadership and organizational learning. In this installment, we will focus [...]
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams People follow leaders. People work for managers. It is a great outcome when the organizational power of management is [...]
Beat the Hijackers In installment five of this blog series we learned the most important tool for keeping the brain safe from hijackers. BREATH In this installment, we will learn four more strategies for beating the hijackers. All of these strategies will be much easier [...]
Beat the Hijackers So far in this blog series you have learned that stress as a physical and cognitive reaction is experienced when the brain perceives that someone or something has changed or plans to change something of perceived importance to you. This change often [...]
Meet the Hijackers In Parts 2 and 3 of this blog series you learned about the mental and physical consequences of stress. In this part of the series we will discuss triggers. When the brain perceives that someone has made or plans to make a [...]
That Can't Be Healthy In the second installment of this blog series we learned all stress, including change, triggers physiological reactions. Further these physiological reactions work in a feedback loop with the emotions raised by the stress response to diminish logical decision making, planning skills, [...]
A Little Neuroscience In the first installment of this blog series we learned that change and stress are often related and that the initial "NO" that comes from hearing about a change can be a sign that a deeper, more immediate, overwhelming, and out-of-measure response [...]
In our last installment, we discussed how to build relationships with managers and an agreed upon organizational role. In this installation, we will explore ideas of how to work with the organization's senior management when the opportunity arises. Working with the Higher Ups It had been a stellar year. [...]
Have You Ever Heard...? Have you ever heard any of these? “OK, everyone, because of the market situation there have been rumors of this, but we are going to reorganize.” or “The bank just called and said our mortgage rate is changing.” or “We are [...]