The brain relies on three ess...

The brain relies on three essential processes:

Attention: the ability to focus on relevant stimuli, and block out what is not relevant: "Pay attention!"

Inhibition: the ability to "not do" certain actions that could be distracting, irrelevant, or even destructive:
"Don‘t do that!"

Working Memory: the ability to retain and access relevant information for reasoning, decision making, and taking future actions: "Remember and build on relevant information."

If leadership is operating in...

If leadership is operating in a way that makes any of those brain functions unable to perform, or creates a team or culture in which they cannot work, results will be weakened and the vision damaged.

As neuroscientists have shown...

As neuroscientists have shown in recent years, the very best leadership skills are rooted in how people think, in how our brains are constructed and how they operate.

When I started my organizatio...

When I started my organization, no one told me that half of my energy would be spent actually building and lead-ing it and the other half, or even more, would be spent protecting and defending it against all of the things other people wanted it to be.

It takes a ferocious amount of spinal fortitude to not end up making a crappy mix of your vision and endless bits and scraps from others who didn‘t have the cojones to start something themselves.

In the end, as a leader, you ...

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get acombination of two things: what you create and what you allow.