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Exciting New Site for Brain Based Leadership

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:59:21 -0700

Endless thanks to each of you in the Brain Based Business Community, and to Know More Media leaders - my good friends and wonderful colleagues. As lights go down, and curtains close here at Brain BB, thanks to all here who have both learned with us, and taught us new wonders of the human brain that impact daily success. Special appreciation for all you offered over the past few years!

It's time now for an exciting move and expansion!

Please visit my new Brain Leaders and Learners blog site where we'll continue to welcome a vibrant exchange of stories and stats in ways that serve up brain based leadership for a new era, in:

Practical Tactics from Neuro Discoveries!

We'll continue to do all we did best here and more - since my new brain based community addresses concerns and interests of leaders in both learning and also in business. We'll continue to discuss current research on a national and global stage.

The question that guides the new site remains similar to queries that steered this blog.

What would it take to lead with more brainpower on an ordinary day?

The new site uses Word Press, making it even easier for you to comment, question, share what's on your mind, and engage others about brainy discoveries on theirs.

Look forward to seeing you over at:

Brain Leaders and Learners

Are You Old and Tired?

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:35:19 -0700

If you’re old and tired - your business’ likely pickled and time-worn too. Yikes! Do others say that about you, your ideas, or your networks?

Sure, we’ve all tripped into that odd day when we wished we could trade lids with a better brain at work. Luckily, there doesn’t have to be that need on a regular scale though.

Truth is, even aging brains regenerate daily, and you’re likely far younger than you think if:

1. You learn from younger peers ways to keep up with cool new ideas.

2. You ask 2-footed questions to as a way to find life changing solutions.

3. You change at least one routine weekly in favor of more progressive ways.

4. You risk new creations and toss your own innovations into the ring at work.

5. You disagree with the brain in mind, so that brilliant ideas come together.

New research shows how brain cells regenerate when people are stimulated by their environment. Simply put, your brain rewires and shapes itself, based on what you do in a day, and rarely grows old and tired because of numerical age. Good news for those of us who hope to age with the brain more in mind.

Obama’s Top 10 Business Brain Tactics

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:04:44 -0700

With each challenge that hits, Obama tends to lead with yet another brain based tactic, and together these leader strengths fueled his recent race for presidency. Do you capitalize on your mental tools to take you to the peaks when problems arise at work?

Here are 10 tactics that illuminate Obama’s brain based leadership:

1. Value differences

2. Temper tone

3. Care for People

4. Take risks

5. Emulate teachability

6. Consider opposites

7. Celebrate humility

8. Solve problems

9. Inspire creativity

10. Speak hope

These are simply the brain based quality. What else have you seen in Obama’s leadership that would prosper yours?

The Opposite of Regret is ...

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:54:30 -0700

More and more people express regrets for failed finances. They regret they started late, worked too little, spent too much, failed to plan, or trusted the wrong people.

How do you let go of regret?

Not much I hope. Why so?

Research shows how regret stops mental growth, triggers potentially dangerous chemicals and shuts out any new shoots of opportunity that could be yours.

Think of regret as the dam for fresh flowing ~~waters~~ finances, or sudden roadblocks across well travelled ~~highways~~ opportunities.

Can you see regret now from your brain’s perspective?

The opposite of regret that stops your progress, is ... that begins to rejuvenate your situation.

Because of our unique mix of intelligences, answers differ for different people, but your brain can transform regret into positive financial brainpower, only when you act on grief's opposites.

What could you do today to reboot your brain back onto a healthier highway forward, when regret tries to shut out business success?

Work that Inhibits Brain Regeneration

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:21:24 -0700

Until lately experts believed adult brains could not grow new cells or regenerate old ones. Now there is an entire field of neurogenesis that shows how adult brains generate new cells.

Elizabeth Gould at Princeton University first challenged old guard thinking – such as Rakic’s endless studies on rhesus monkeys that denied adult brain cell growth, and then showed life-changing scientific proof.

Interestingly, scientists no longer question the brain’s capacity to replace damaged cells and yet it doesn’t always happen as it could. Why so?

Sadly, some workplaces inhibit the brain’s capacity for regeneration, through -

1. Stress

2. Isolation

3. Boredom

4. Exhaustion

5. Too little movement

Does your workplace enhance or inhibit new discoveries for adult brain cell generation? Do you see work related implications for older adults, and for those people who hope to age with the brain in mind.

Perfectionism at Work

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:01:37 -0700

If you find yourself stressed and work has lost its zest, you'll want to check out research on the perils of perfectionism.

When found in your boss, you can forget about meeting expectations. In yourself, you'll tighten the noose of mediocrity. Have you seen it happen?

Perfectionism, it turns out comes with two distinct oars that steer your vessel into dangerous waters, while its opposites cultivate place for mind-bending performances.

What pathways for excellence exist beyond perfectionism's ruts in your workplace?

Surprised by Age?

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:13:02 -0700

Daily we meet workers who say they're sidelined because of age.

Others simply chop off a decade when they reveal their age, as a way to keep up with younger upstarts through their youthful pretense.

A third set boasts to any workers who'll listen, about a long lifetime of personal experiences that seemed to work far better than their peers.

Still other seniors, though, inspire us all with lived tactics for aging voraciously. To live daily in ways that rejuvenate the human brain with curiosity, for instance, also beats the pathology of aging brains.

It's not easy for those who've lived traditional myths about limitations of the aging brain.

What have you observed where you work? More important, is your brain aging voraciously?

Brainpower Eludes Victims

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:04:20 -0700

Two forces powerfully at work in global markets also work within each workplace, so that an urgency exists for a human response. People line up on either side of these two divides, creating a sort of mental tug-a-war between courage and fear. It's also combat between seritonin and cortisol.

On one side you'll find progressive innovators and on the other side, victims vent. Two polar ends remain at odds, in that innovators stand courageously and take new risks, while victims create anxiety and spread victimhood within their words. Have you heard it lately?

Victims tell how some pollute the planet. Innovators seek sustainability plans.

Victims describe poorly met health needs. Innovators seek healthcare change.

Victims dwell on who caused market to crash. Innovators re-invest for growth.

Victims see dollars wasted on schools. Innovators renew with brains in mind.

Not that challenges or current crisis come without personal cost, or are taken lightly by those who lead with solutions.

It's just that innovators are busy planning for a brainpower boom! A surefire win that surfaces in many innovator's solution based response to crisis.

What side of this divide are you standing? It's important to note and name your side, since one end's for victims and the other's for victorious, so they'll lead in opposite directions.

What do you think?

Media's Part in Fiscal Brainpower

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:22:52 -0700

Media could add amazing brainpower to turn around financial busts and lead us into booms, but it didn't happen in newscasts I read today. Have you too seen increasingly dark reports?

It doesn't have to be that way.

For a media turnaround into brainpowered fiscal growth, they'd:

1. Showcase success stories about people who rewire their brains for investing in tough times.

2. Highlight adventures that show people who turn brainpower into fin ancial prosperity, in a lean market.

3. Print compelling interviews with financial gurus who promote innovative solutions, that overcome past financial failures.

4. Avoid fear tactics used by losers in the financial community, and instead identify and promote courageous experts with leadership ability.

5. Support intelligent risks that reach across chasms of failed practices to foster financial solutions their readers crave.

In times of financial failure we look to the press to help us segue back into successful approaches to leapfrog over disasters. Have you seen these tactics highlighted in your newscasts today?

Google Brainpower

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:30:51 -0700

Google brain power? Apparently web surfers showed twice the level of brain activity than inexperienced participants in a recent study. Does this rejuvenation brain fact surprise you?

It turns out that searching the internet could net you more brainpower than once thought.

According to a new study at U CLA Center fo r the Aging, web surfing stimulates areas of the brain that impact reading, language and memory, and appear to prolong cognitive capabilities.

Will this new research add to the tasks you already do to challenge and grow your brainpower?

Men are Logical, Women are Emotional

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:12:26 -0700

Have you observed that men are logical and women are more emotional, where you work? If so you must also have examples to show how it is so.

Or do you see men and women as both logical and emotional at times? Check here for one humorist’s interpretation of cognitive discoveries on this key matter.

My question is – What specific strategies would enable men and women to work together more for mutual benefits at work?

How do you see collaboration between men and women winning more mutual benefits where you work?

Attack Antics or Tone Tactics?

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:33:10 -0700

Have you encountered an opinionated or narrow-minded person lately? Listen to political ads for the upcoming election and you’ll hear one side put down the other with attacks that spay toxins like pesticides. Read anonymous commenters on blog and you’ll feel that same acidic spray.

Here’s my question:

If opposing views enable people to collaborate top solutions together, how do we rewire attack antics into tone tactics at work?

What have you done when people at your firm attack, or when outspoken people lack tone skills to hear or communicate several sides of key issues?

Do people speak and feel heard where you work?

Why Workshops Waste Money

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:20:30 -0700

Have you ever attended a great workshop, and experienced an aha moment, only to find people forget to roll out any new insights back at work? It’s no coincidence that workshops waste money, and tend to defeat their purpose, if you look at how the brain learns and retains new ideas. How so?

While the brain synapses with fast driven ideas, with mentally charged fuels and an impetus for improvement at workshops, change requires more. It takes time and applications with guidance to override the brain’s natural proclivity to default past former ruts.

Life-changing improvements are implemented through extended guidance that increases serotonin hormones for learning and growth. Yet significant changes tend to be abandoned shortly after brief workshops. Participants drop inspired facts from their working memory. It's how human brains are designed to work, and it makes sense when you think about it.

For years we offered brief MITA Brain Based workshops, saw unusual excitement for new ideas and change, only to find people frustrated, and the efforts of a few hampered by cortisol chemicals and not much support. No more, we turn down offers weekly and suggest that people save their money and our time instead.

Success comes from institutes where people certify to create action plans based on new information learned. This process allows newly learned insights to filter into the brain’s basal ganglia where the brain stores more permanent ideas, intentions and practices that can lead to concrete change.

It takes guidance and human support to roll these new ideas out in ways that replace or rejuvenate broken practices. When people try an idea for the first time, they tend to see gaps that can come during lectures where they took in facts without any opportunity to try them out or ask questions when problems arise.

Can you see why workshops waste money and at the same time, can even hamper the urgent changes many crave?

Finance Leaders Stop Messing with Minds

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:31:48 -0700

Have you considered that the very gloom and doom we read daily related to our spiraling debt, is preventing powerful solutions that restore prosperity.

Rather than lament monetary losses, let’s begin to consider solutions and use new brain insights to restore prosperity.

Imagine news programs that address 2-footed questions which could turn around the problems we’ve created, and repair broken finance systems we’ve supported. In fact, why repair busted ruts, when we could create refreshing pools to contain rejuvenated financial prosperity?

I’d like to start by posing this 2-footed question, as a way to draw on your best solutions.

How can we bailout our community’s intellectual loss from daily overdoses of economic woes?

Any innovative yet solid ideas that would help us rebuild more lasting and fair prosperity?

Do Targets Make you Rich?

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:02:39 -0700

Targets tend to leave younger people invigorated, senior staff as sharper thinkers, and can change chaotic organizations into top halls of talent.

Yet it often takes more experienced workers who target talent in novices to roll out change initiatives in any slumping workplace.

Did you know that:

1). Targets reboot the brain and add synergy to beat broken systems?

2). Brain-friendly targets unleash multiple intelligences as alternatives to mere talk?

3). Teen talent targeted often leads to workplaces re-energized?

How do targets ratchet up brainpower where you work?