by Franklin Wordsmith | Mar 10, 2020 | Neuroscience
Understanding Your People’s Brains Can Make You a More Engaging Leader Maybe this has happened to you. I was looking forward to hearing a presentation. Instead, it beat me up and stole my lunch. “The Emperor’s New Clothes” in Speech Form This was a fancy-shmancy...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Feb 11, 2020 | Neuroscience
How this Affects You and Your Team and What to Do about It For years I’ve bastardized that children’s rhyme to remember the days in the month: “30 days hath September, April June and November. All the rest of 31—except January and February, which have 80.” For we in...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Feb 4, 2020 | Neuroscience
What Is Amygdala Hijack and What Can You Do about It? I’m one of those “get crap done” kind of people. Show me a problem: I figure out the alternatives, usually find the best ones and make solid suggestions. There are times when none of this is...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Jan 21, 2020 | Neuroscience
How the Sunk Cost Fallacy Wastes Your Time, Money and Happiness This is another of those times when your brain is designed to shoot you in the foot. Let’s say you bought stock in a company. You were excited about its prospects. Then the price went down. And...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Jan 7, 2020 | Culture, Neuroscience
It’s one of our biggest fears as leaders. We look at our people and see troubling behaviors:They forget what we tell themThey are more anxious and stressedThey aren’t coming up with creative ideas to solve problems or identify new opportunitiesTheir...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Nov 26, 2019 | Neuroscience
Have you ever sat at your desk, felt “mentally dry,” and decided to push through this until you completed the task at hand? Me, too.Sometimes that need to cross things off your to do list can get stronger than your desire to come up with the best ideas.But...
