If you’ve tried to change any broken parts at your organization lately, you’ll likely recognize the speed bumps and sinks holes that prevent growth. Any barriers where you work?
Luckily, I’ve also found amazing windows for fresh air when I wiggle a few handles open, and risk brain based approaches that cool hot spots. 
Over my own 30 years as a student of the brain and an activist to bring more brainpower to work … I’ve discovered 5 lynchpins for growth that lasts.
1. Bureaucracy can be breached with retrofits it can handle … you can live with … and leaders will prosper by. Find one open bureaucrat where you work and you’ve already begun to make spaces for new approaches that bring visible benefits. Then celebrate these benefits with that person – offering credit to that bureaucrat for change … as a way to keep improvements rolling.
2. Tone takes the cake when problems arise … and troubles will pop up like geysers under pressure … whenever tradition meets change. Interestingly, leaders often tell me that tone holds power for change that few firms recognize … and yet most admit that tone skills are rarely taught at failing organizations. Have you noticed?
3. Procrastination may make firms poorer … fatter … and unhappier … but it rarely gets the last word at successful, growing organizations. How so? Prioritize key targets for your day, and watch creative zip color the calendar and enhance peak performances.
4. Stress shrinks the brain and shuts down change efforts … and yet you can turn harmful cortisol chemicals into serotonin hormones … with brain based skill. Move a group into the directions of change through laughter, classical music at work, and watch new solutions light up like fireworks illumine a dark sky. Sound like growth?
5. Inventions come from shared insights, and point firms in opposite directions from routines and ruts that lock out life and kill incentives. In his book … Physician Invent Thyself … Michael Neuvirth makes innovations at your firm seem as easy as the inspiration that drives his winning markets.
How well do you help leaders to embrace the changes that will point your firm in a direction of growth. Why not start with a survey to determine where brainpower already creates progress. Then tackle these hotspots for change … one at a time.
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