Lead with Constructive Impatience
We live in an age of acceleration. This puts pressure on all of us to step up, to raise the bar on ourselves and our institutions. In this rapidly changing world, everyone is challenged to expand their minds, and organizations are pressured to improve their performance. Complacency and chaos are the enemies of progress and…
Amplify Your Personal Sensors
Since our world is moving so fast, we must activate and amplify our senses in order to keep pace. Not just our five senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, touching and tasting, but we also need to put our mental senses to work. Our mental “sonar” of listening, intuiting, feeling, and experiencing in real time, enables us…
Live Your Higher Purpose
Conscious people bring their best selves to everything they do, and have the courage to challenge others to be good human beings – with their families, work teams, and communities. Living your purpose allows you to merge doing good with achieving your goals whether you are a teacher, a parent, a business leader, or a politician. …
Befriending Your Hijackers
The Job of Hijackers In a disruptive and accelerating world, we are all vulnerable to being hijacked. Just about anything can throw us off center – disruptions and distractions, wanting to escape and avoid reality, getting lost in our emotions or simply being blinded by misguided thoughts. Hijackers function a lot like Homer’s sirens. We…
Putting Your Accelerators to Work
Accelerators in Action Let’s take a look at five common accelerators in more detail: Courage In The Wizard of Oz, the Cowardly Lion goes on the yellow brick road searching for courage. Chased by his personal fears, he continuously doubts himself with his tail between his legs at any sign of uncertainty. What he ultimately…
The Three Faces of Anxiety
Anxiety is a wake-up call Most of us view anxiety through a purely negative lens. We see anxiety as something to fear and avoid. This thinking is self-defeating and can even make us more anxious. So why is it so difficult to deal with anxiety? It starts with faulty thinking and goes something like this:…
Inclusion is the Road to Innovation
The Power of Unconscious Bias Any human thought or human creation is based on positive and negative biases. Even algorithms have been shown to have built-in bias because they were designed and coded by humans. The faster the world turns, the more likely we are to fill our minds with biases just to make sense…
Develop Your Google Mind
Activate Your Growth Mind-set When you encounter something new, your brain tries to fit it into the world you already know. By adding more connections and associations, you expand your understanding. This, in turn, emboldens your creativity. Active curiosity strengthens your brain’s wiring. The opposite is also true. If you do not stretch your brain,…
“AND” IS THE NEW “OR” – The Value of Paradoxical Thinking in Business
Both/And Thinking Many of us think we live in an “either/or” world. A world colored in black and white, win or lose, us versus them. Framed in simple dichotomies, this fixed mind-set narrows our vision, limits possibilities, and reduces the number of choices. It affects how we think, solve problems, and make decisions. A fixed…
Be Your Own Drone
Get Up On the Balcony The ability to rise above the din, to see the bigger picture, to hear the bigger story, is more important than ever in our disrupting, accelerating world. Being your own drone lets you see over the horizon. With this view, you have greater vision, deeper self-observation, and wider discovery. Like…
