Boards of Directors: Consider THIS Before You Select Your Next CEO
When you look at any organization that has radically transformed for elevated success, at the core, you will find the implant of a vertically developed leader.
Vertical Development is Like Improving Our Eating Skills
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.
Are Your Leaders Operating at a Leadership Deficit?
As a part of all of our human experience, we have all operated at this deficit at different times of our life.
Heat Experience: A Necessary Prerequisite to Vertical Development
Heat experiences are events or situations that cause one to question their current mental models and ways of thinking.
The Most Common Executive Struggles – Part 5 – Wrong Power Base
The most important job of an executive is to influence the employees in the organization to fulfill the mission of the organization.
The Most Common Executive Struggles – Part 4
Let’s look at vulnerability through the lens of vertical development and how we “make meaning” of vulnerability.
Most Common Executive Struggles – Part 3
Research on vertical development has found that people can operate with different internal operating systems that vary in their cognitive and emotional sophistication.
Most Common Executive Struggles – Part 2
This week, I start identifying the most common executive struggles that I have observed working with executive teams.
The Foundation of Most Executives’ Struggles – Part 1
In this article, I want to explore what I believe to be the foundation of all four things that executives struggle with.
Recommendations for Bottom-Up Vertical Development Efforts
While we can engage in bottom-up efforts on our own, we will generally not get the full healing value from it without guidance and facilitation of a trained therapist.