What Can I Learn About My Reactivity? The positive, healthy kind that keeps us alive and flourishing and hyperreactivity that can do us in. On the individual level, there are telltale signals of reactivity that can alert us that we are carrying around an unhealthy level of anxiety: a racing mind, tension in your neck
Recently, very challenging situations have been labeled VUCA challenges highlighting that the systems-level solutions must simultaneously deal with volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.
VUCA challenges often have immediate and long-term consequences that are far-reaching in scope. VUCA challenges are system-level challenges in that the causes, impacts, and solutions require thinking and acting from a perspective that considers both natural and manmade systems.
VUCA challenges often have immediate and long-term consequences that are far-reaching in scope. VUCA challenges are system-level challenges in that the causes, impacts, and solutions require thinking and acting from a perspective that considers both natural and manmade systems.
VUCA challenges often have immediate and long-term consequences that are far-reaching in scope. VUCA challenges are system-level challenges in that the causes, impacts, and solutions require thinking and acting from a perspective that considers both natural and manmade systems.
What had I done? I created a triangle between myself, the mom, and the cashier impatiently waiting. My anxiety kept rising because I couldn’t lower the mom’s anxiety.
I soon learned that the changes I had introduced had injected a significant amount of anxiety into what Friedman referred to as the family system of the church.
I soon learned that the changes I had introduced had injected a significant amount of anxiety into what Friedman referred to as the family system of the church.
A Failure to Scale Organizations may be able to do a successful “sprint” by asking leadership to go after short-term goals, but any organization that expedites operations to reach new levels of performance cannot sustain this based on a foundation of overfunctioning. Consequences of Overfunctioning Jim Collins uses a flywheel analogy in his famous book
Communicating a Calm Presence Sometimes a simple change in how we communicate is all it takes to begin the process of calming an anxious system. One organization we worked with was experiencing a rise in both acute and chronic anxiety, and many employees (including some of the members of the senior team) were displaying reactive
