Leadership Nudge – STRESS PERFORMANCE The stress performance curve, sometimes referred to as the arousal performance curve can help us understand the effects of stress on our abilities and our teams’ abilities to perform simple physical or complex cognitive tasks. Scientists have discovered that the amount of stress we have affects our ability to perform...
Leadership Nudge – FIX THE ENVIRONMENT, NOT PEOPLE I believe that every human has the potential to do great. We all have a latent superhero within. All too often, however, that superhero never sees the light of day because of fear, bureaucracy, or insecurities we carry with us. Here’s the leader-leader challenge: What if, by...
Leadership Nudge – Stress Pushes You Down Leaders, your mission should you choose to accept it is to stay the leader you want to be even under times of stress. Even when you have a lot to get done, and even when you are under time pressure. Our tendency is to tell others what to...
The environment matters a lot more than we think. Humans tend to attribute behavior to the person and underweight the impact of the environment. We do this to ourselves. Let’s say you are attending a conference. Maybe you got in late the night before and didn’t sleep all that well. The breakfast buffet has rows...