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…

Adaptive Development is Crucial

Do you have your strengths, or do your strengths have you? Michael Watkins teaches that what got you where you are won’t necessarily serve you there. “Success often requires us to stop doing some things we’ve been doing and to embrace new competencies.” The surgeon leader who tells herself, “To meet expectations, I must do…

Expert Hunters of Ourselves

The Spanish poet Antonio Machado wrote, ‘I caught a glimpse of him in a dream, expert hunter of himself, always in ambush.’ Machado reminds us that the self is perpetually incomplete. Growth is not just what we can do. It’s what we can be. The idea of self-growth can be daunting, but courage is not…