Boosting your mental agility and critical thinking
Large amounts of data and rapid change increase the need to think critically and adjust to new realities. Will Rogers reminds us that “even if you…
Would You Choose the Red or Blue Pill if you were in the Matrix?
In the film,The Matrix,the main character, Neo,is offered a choice. He could take a red pill representing a desire to live in the real world…
4 Ways to Smash the Barriers to Critical Thinking
Many leaders exhibit a tendency to jump intoaction. When a problem is identified there must be an immediate response. There appears to be an ingrained…
Situational Mindsets: Targeting What Matters When It Matters
Situational Mindsets expands leadership beyond mastering personal style, skill set, and positive characteristics. It adds the ability to adjust to dynamic conditions and deliver results. …
Six Situational Mindsets To Putting First Things First
No one would argue that as leaders, we want to immediately tackle the most important issue or opportunity. As Stephen Covey advises, “put first things…
Breaking the Vacuum Around Leadership
Has leadership kept pace with the unfathomable challenges we face? We have excelled at helping leaders from the inside out by focusing on leadership style,…
Critical Thinking | Executive Coaching | Leadership | Leadership Development | Leadership Practices | Management | Organizational Development | Strategic Planning | Strategic Thinking
Targeting What Matters When It Matters
Adopting a narrow or fixed perspective is both foolish and dangerous. My MBA students frequently and fervently embrace a single answer, but in their rush to…
Business Acumen | Communication and Influence | Critical Thinking | Engagement | Management | Strategic Planning | Strategic Thinking
Bridging Executive Team Conflict
One of my clients was entering a strategic planning process with a dysfunctional executive team. The team was stuck over how to plan for the…
Using Checklists and Statistics to Get in Sync With Reality
I was recently struck by my seeming lack of perspective on global developments while reading Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–And Why Things…