Articles
Here are the recent articles I wrote for BRAINZ.
01
Time For A Pronoun Paradigm Shift?
During a recent large online meeting, I felt different. Like I didn’t get the memo saying: “Post pronouns beside your name.” If all those talented Harvard alumni women posted their pronouns, I should too, right? Me2.
02
Top Ways Leaders Manage Conflict And Reduce the Cortisol-Related Stress Response
Nested within a wide circle of family, colleagues, and community systems, we humans find health, happiness, and meaningful purpose. And sometimes, friction.
03
It's All In Your Head – Cultivating Conscious Conversations
When you inaccurately imagine something, “It’s all in your head.” It’s also what the car mechanic thinks when you complain about that clicking sound that mysteriously disappears during the inspection.
04
What’s Worse? Scary Movie 3 Or “We Have To Talk”?
Does “We Have to Talk” trigger an inner primal scream? Perhaps you’ve heard these ominous 4-words from...
- The Boss: “I have some feedback”
- A Partner: “It’s me, not you”
- Garage Mechanic: “It’s the transmission”
- Child's teacher: “About their behavior”
05
Do You Have A Clearing Disorder?
Have you ever complained about busy work distracting you from strategic, high-impact projects and planning? You’re not alone!
06
Silence Your Perfectionista
Did you get all that? If English is your native language, most likely you understood it, errors and all. Spelling mistakes did not materially impact the outcome.
Don't make me hit you
My iPhone just blasted an old photo of my son's graduation triggering a memory.
An Army recruiter called asking to speak with my then 11-year-old baby.
He signed up for the military!
Several years later, he followed through.
I've noted a pattern in developing children, leaders, and businesses over 30 years.
If you're a parent - or were raised by one - do you recognize these progressively complex levels of working?
Executing Operations: running consistent and reliable activities
feeding, bathing, nose-wiping, kisses, band-aids, and cookies
Maintaining Activities: sustaining and coordinating processes
hockey practice, meal preferences, bedtime routines, homework, chores
Improving Systems: designing higher-order experiences in complexity
religion, education, sleep-overs, family meetings, conflict resolution, school interviews, summer camps, developing social intelligence
Evolving Inherent Potential: seeking the Distinct one-of-a-kind Essence
stewarding the next-level growth of innate capacities for a person or system
Example: supporting my son's dream of becoming an Army Officer
And since life is a continuous... process... of... BECOMING...
Our work becomes increasingly complex as leaders of families, teams, or organizations.
Yet, we unintentionally work from outdated levels when conditions change, and we don't.
To that point {{contact.first_name}}, when you consider your work...
Which level do you tend to over-use? Under-use?
Is this an automatic or conscious choice?
What's restraining your growth in this Longevity Economy?
(In my bossy Italian Mama voice) Who are you becoming now? Are you evolving your inherent potential to do more and become more? Don't make me hit you!
GROW to your next leadership edge, then the next one, for your beloved people, places, and causes.
