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How Leaders Can Prevent Emotional Hijacking In Decision Making
Shifting from Mind Full to Mindful Decision-Making Mode In the last few blog posts I have been sharing with you how your brain determines the difficulty of a task and how emotional hijacking impacts the decision-making process in all of us. Let me know share some...
How Emotional Hijacking Impacts Decision Making
Stress Impacts the Amount and Quality of Information Reaching Your Brain In the previous blog post, we wrote about how your brain determines the difficulty of a task and other insights into your decision-making brain. This is important because a lack of quality...
Leaders: Insights Into Your Decision-Making Brain
How Your Brain Determines the Difficulty of a Task Decisions shape our lives. As leaders, the decisions we make and execute also shape the lives of our team members, colleagues, direct reports, customers, suppliers, and even the communities in which we operate and...
Leaders Need To Get Out of “Mind Full” Mode
Multitasking Results in Leaders Operating in "Mind Full" Mode As mentioned in the previous post, multitasking is not truly a productive way to lead. Nor is it an effective way to accomplish major tasks. While it may seem like doing lots of things at once is the height...
Leaders: How To Best Leverage Your Cognitive Resources
Multitasking Is Not Truly A Productive Way To Lead As mentioned in the previous post on How Leaders Can Win The Distractions Battle, it is far better to handle the most challenging mental tasks early in the day when cognitive resources are at a peak. This is why I...
Great Leadership Articles From January
Best Articles On Leadership, Leadership Development and Leadership Skills Welcome to February! Does anyone know where January went? I have updated our Recommended Leadership Articles website pages with the best articles I read last month. Here’s the link:...
How Leaders Can Win The Distractions Battle
Multitasking Is Detrimental To Focus And Long-Term Brain Health Scientific research tells us that as we age we are more easily distracted by irrelevant information, particularly when experiencing stress or powerful emotions. “Increased distractibility is a sign of...
How Leaders Can Control Their Busy Brains
Tips on Controlling the Brain for Leaders In the previous post I shared some of the things I do to help my busy brain concentrate on important tasks, such as writing the draft of a book. I also shared why FOMO should really mean Fear of Brain Overload. Another way to...
Leaders: Beware The Busy Brain
FOMO Should Really Mean Fear Of Mind Overload Our brains are amazing. They control our bodily functions. They recall past events. They provide us with lucid dreams while we sleep or nap. But our brains are also annoying. They never shut off! They continually crave...
Busy Leaders Are Not Effective Leaders
Too Many Managers And Leaders Are Operating In "Mind Full" Mode Too Often Heike Bruch and Sumantra Ghoshal hit the nail on the head in their Harvard Business Review article Beware the Busy Manager. A major conclusion from their ten years of studying the behaviors of...