Getting From One Trapeze to Another
It’s not so much that we’re afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it’s that place between that we fear. It is like being between two trapezes. It’s like Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There’s nothing to hold onto. — Marilyn Ferguson, American Futurist Your boss is
Caution! Your Brain May Be Shrinking
This morning I read an interesting, and on some levels disturbing, study organized in 2012 at Yale University’s Department of Neurobiology. Extensive testing and brain imaging conducted on 103 otherwise healthy individuals showed that exposure to stress can reduce gray matter in critical regions of the brain that regulate emotion and important physiological functions. The
(Team) Chemistry is King
Chemistry is King…Or why Culture eats strategy for Breakfast This past week, the World Series created a perfect convergence of sport, business lesson and effective teaching moments – if you missed it, lucky for you the TT didn’t. Peter Drucker was once famously attributed to saying ‘Culture eats strategy for breakfast’ The Chemistry experiment that
High Performing Teams Need Psychological Safety
“There’s no team without trust,” ~ Paul Santagata, Head of Industry at Google A few weeks ago an old friend sent me a link to an article and asked in his email “Don’t you do this kind of work?” The article that he shared was one of the many spin-offs that reported on what Google