Professional Communication

Have you noticed that lizards are never leaders?  Other reptiles or animals do not follow the lizard.  Lizards don’t even follow other lizards.  Instead, lizards seem to dart around following only their own genetic instincts for survival.  It’s impossible to be a lizard and a leader at the same time.

Each of us has a lizard brain.  A fight-or-flight, instinctual part of our brain called the amygdala.  It is part of the limbic system, a system known for being all about emotion, instinct, and decision-making, based on our feelings.  The amygdala portion of our limbic system kicks into high gear when we are stressed, overloaded, angry, and fearful.  An activated amygdala shuts down our brain’s center for higher thinking, the neocortex.  The amygdala hijacks our abilities to be rational, to think strategically, to see and hear all arguments about […]

There have been many articles written over the last decade especially take a peak inside this magician’s tophat. I came up with five Jobsian tricks you can adapt to make your next presentation a little better without spending hours and hours in front of a mirror.

A slew of cognitive studies over the last five years have shown that what we think is multitasking is in reality over-active and distracted brain activity. The brain can only focus on one process at a time, so we’ve actually become expert “start-and-stoppers.” What’s worse, our attempts at multitasking slow us down, as errors increase and fatigue quickly clouds any accomplishments we think we make.