“Keep striving until you find yourself.” Run like crazy when you hear this saying or any other bullshit saying like it. The future you is not hiding under some rock out there waiting to be discovered. To better engage complexity, to develop relational depth, to lead with more competence: these all require you to create…
Jeff Bezos suggests the “two pizza rule” for Amazon meetings, no more attendees than can be fed with two pizzas. (About 6-10 people.) Meetings with more than ten people risk diluted communication, allow people to go passive (hide in plain sight), and undermine decision making. Here are 5 other ways to ensure you have productive…
“Brain Plasticity” can get physicians (and executives) into trouble. Physicians are people. In their early years, like the rest of us, many endure bullying, abuse, and traumatic loss. But physician exposure to trauma is more likely to continue from there. Up to 78 percent of residents experience at least one traumatic event during their training,…
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.
“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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
“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,…