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The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information - 7 +/- 2 bits of information Based on cognitive psychologist, George Miller’s research at Harvard If you were given a series of letters to remember (e.g., twpbdrt),...
Client Stories
I My client, when he rose to become the head of a practice at a Big Four Professional Services firm, he needed to feel more comfortable in his role leading hundreds of Partners. Self-professed, he was at his absolute best when he was working with clients to solve...
Nature’s Interconnection for Survival – a Metaphor
How incredible and interesting. Get this. The Beech tree does not set itself in a forest with soil that has any of the necessary nutrients for its survival. The soil it sets itself in is depleted of those elements to grow and maintain the tree. Instead, the innate...
Indigenous Thinking Can Help Leaders to Save the World
Indigenous thinking can help us to save the world - but right now we have it all backwards. I learned so much from reading Tyson Yunkaporta’s book, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World*. First, there is a manner in which Tyson Yunkaporta, a First...
The Penguin Spiral – Who is it we take care of in our world today?
What we can learn from the penguin spiral Seeing what we know happening in our world today, we could become like the penguins. They know how to take care of each other. Here is how the spiral works. A colony of penguins close in on each other to form a spiral to...
Eight Principles from Improvisation That Teach Us About Leadership
Every improviser has a process — and at the very critical points, they ditch it and follow their gut. Why is this important to Leadership? Improvisation is thought to be one of the most frightening gigs around yet is exhilarating once mastered. When in performance,...
