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Vertical development is about upgrading our internal operating system such that we elevate how we make meaning of our world in more cognitively and emotionally sophisticated ways.

The most important job of an executive is to influence the employees in the organization to fulfill the mission of the organization.

Let’s look at vulnerability through the lens of vertical development and how we “make meaning” of vulnerability.

Research on vertical development has found that people can operate with different internal operating systems that vary in their cognitive and emotional sophistication.

This week, I start identifying the most common executive struggles that I have observed working with executive teams.

In this article, I want to explore what I believe to be the foundation of all four things that executives struggle with.

And, the reality is that the better we can effectively regulate our physical and emotional needs, the more effectively we operate.

Vertical development is a form of development that is focused on improving our internal operating such that we make meaning of our world in more cognitively and emotionally sophisticated ways.

Vertical development is new to the leadership and personal development space, but research on vertical development has been around for over 50 years in the field of developmental psychology.