Taking Care of Yourself is Altruistic
If you want to help as many people as possible, you’ll see to it that you’re around for a long time. Sustainability has a very high leadership effectiveness correlation.
Top Down, Bottom Up
“Wherever you go, don’t forget to take your body with you!” Adaptive Development tends to be “top down.” It goes something like this: However, now we understand that our thinking is often impacted when the body reacts to a dynamic or circumstance and sends counterproductive messages to the brain. In other words, sometimes it’s the…
Enormous Physician, Physician Leader Wellness Implication
Peel back the layers of physician anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, physician suicide, and you’ll often find the negative manifestation of the Socialized Mind.[i] “You can’t reach out for help because you’ll be seen as weak.” “It doesn’t matter that it’s unsustainable. You must power through, must keep going.” “You’re a doctor. You’re supposed to have…
Minimum Adaptive Development Required for Competent Leadership
The minimum level of Adaptive Development required for competent leadership is observable, measurable, and predictable. It is called the Self-Authoring Mind, and you’ll know it when you see it. Self-Authored thinking empowers people to thrive in situations that provide ambiguity, complexity, volatility, and oppositeness. The Self-Authored Mind ups our ability to engage complex circumstances. Since…
Get Informed
Healthcare Leaders: Did you know that there are 317,987 health plans in the US market? Did you know that there are 599,204 unique codes to describe healthcare products and services? And were you aware that each code requires each individual healthcare plan to establish a pricing model for the service with the provider? Did you…
Physicians, Medical School, & a Dearth of Leadership Training
“They never teach us this in medical school!” One of my surgeon clients said this to me a couple weeks ago, and it wasn’t the first time I had heard it. (He and I were reviewing Joel Trammell’s “The CEO Tight Rope,” which gives sage advice about creating a top-notch recruiting function.) In addition to…
Personality Profiles: Used But Not Worshipped
“Take the results of their personality profile, crumple it up, and throw it out the window.” These were the words of the trainer who was teaching us what to do after we debriefed clients who had taken a popular personality profile. Obviously, she didn’t mean it literally. Her point was that personality profiles are tools,…
Adaptive Development Facilitates Better Ways of Knowing,
“We’ve been to the battlefield and met the enemy. He is us.” A modernized version of this famous paraphrase: “We have been to the battlefield and met the enemy. The enemy is the way we’ve been interpreting the challenges we face.” Technical development teaches you things to know. Adaptive Development facilitates better ways of…
You Assume the Brilliant Surgeon Will Be a Brilliant Leader.
You assume the brilliant surgeon will be a brilliant leader. You promote or onboard your most talented people to positions of authority. Then, because they are indeed brilliant, you set them free to do the job with little or no developmental support. “I call it cruel and maybe the root of all crueltyto know what…
Your Most Valuable Resource
Don’t let your most valuable resource go to waste! Fern EPC founder and president Brad Fern shares insights on how organizations can help their people reclaim wasted cognitive and emotional energies. In his latest video, Brad describes the importance of the Challenger, the Attuned, and the Contributor in forming the ego strength necessary to lead…