From Book: Importance of an Open Mindset
My book launch is a week away (5/5). To highlight the launch, I want to share portion of my book related to the importance of having an open mindset by sharing a powerful example of closed-mindedness. From Chapter 10: In the 1840s, hospitals in Vienna faced a mysterious, terrifying epidemic of childbed (puerperal) fever, which […]
Agility Quotient
(Cover image credit: Ryderwear – https://www.ryderwear.com/collections/womens-leggings/) You have heard of intelligence quotient (IQ) and emotional intelligence (EQ), but have you heard of agility quotient (AQ). Ok, so agility quotient hasn’t been rigorously studied like IQ or EQ, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have important practical implications. Agility quotient is one’s ability or capacity to […]
Research-Backed Benefits of Possessing an Open Mindset
If you feel like a mindset novice, before reading this article, you might find value in reading this article: What are Mindsets & Why are They Foundational to Our Success? It lays the groundwork for why I am focusing on and summarizing the benefits of an open mindset. Closed and Open Mindsets We possess an […]
Are Mindsets a “Secret to Success?”
I often hear people say that mindsets are the “secret to success.” I am not sure if I buy this. Not because I don’t think mindsets are important, but because I don’t think it is a “secret” that mindsets are foundational to our success. I think most people know and understand the importance of mindsets, […]
The Key to More Psychological Safety
Leadership experts and practioners from Patrick Lincioni (author of The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business) to Ed Catmull (President of Pixar and Disney Animation, and author of Creativity, Inc.) all seem to agree: a signal of organizational health and necessary condition of team and organizational effectiveness is employees’ ability to speak […]
Owning Your Mindsets: The Key to Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is a fancy term for possessing self-awareness and other-awareness in the following ways: Interesting factoids regarding emotional intelligence (from Emotional Intelligence 2.0): Regarding the two components of emotional intelligence, I have two beliefs: For this post, I want to focus on how we can enhance our self-awareness in order to improve our emotional […]
What Your Team Must Focus on to Be Successful
50 years ago, almost to the day I am posting this, astronaut Neil Armstrong took his historic steps on the moon. What an incredible feat…getting people on the moon. How do you get someone on the moon when no one has every been there before? I am not sure, but I do know one thing […]
Mindsets: The Key to Personal Development
If you were to Google “how to be an effective ______________________” (fill in the blank; leader, employee, parent, follower, fisherman), you will inevitably end up with a near-endless list of articles that resemble the following: Now, if you were to click on each of those articles and identify all of the unique aspects of what […]
The Cognitive Science Behind Mindsets
What causes one person to see challenges as things to avoid, but another person to see those same challenges as opportunities to learn and grow? What causes one person to see others as objects, but another person to see those same people as people? Our mindsets! But why? To answer this question, we need to […]
The #1 Factor that Drives Top-Performing Teams & the Key to Developing It
Take a moment and consider: Is your work environment a psychologically safe environment? If you are a leader or manager, do your employees feel like they work in a psychologically safe environment?
