What one area would you like to see change most at work…? Is 
productivity down…? Do people slack off…? Are skills lower than you like…? Do workers scrimp on quality…?
I’m challenged by Ralph Waldo Emerson's suggestion, "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." How about you…?
Any new developments at your workplace? Or is change waiting in the wings for you leave a trail…?
Change takes courage and one person to wield it… Buy how? Fear of taking risks for change… according to Marc Siegal … who quoted excerpts from his book.
Marc pointed out that, “Fear is more than a state of mind; it is chemical. The feeling of alarm arises from the circuitry of our brains, in the neurochemical exchanges between nerve cells.… Fear also has a genetic component. A rat will recoil from the odor of a fox, even if that rodent has spent its whole life in a laboratory. Likewise, we humans are automatically apprehensive about situations that once threatened our ancestors….”
Apparently in the 1920s Walter B. Cannon, a physiologist at Harvard University… saw that the brain reacts to dangers or fear with a hormonal discharge of hormones, including epinephrine, norepinephrine and the steroid cortisol. These hormone cause the heart to race, nerves fire rapidly, the skin cools into goose bumps, the eyes dilate to see better, and the areas of the brain involved in decision making receive a message to act fast.
Ok…so some people avoid change because they are afraid of what change chain reaction might set off in their minds…. So …how does the mind of a change agent like Emerson work? What do you think…?
» Traits of a Brain Based Change Agent from BrainBasedBusiness
I was fascinated by Steve Hardy’s post… Creative Generalist from a session he attended at IdeaCity …in Toronto this week … about being an agent of change. The top 10 list describe traits of leaders as brain based... [Read More]
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