Neuroscience Insights for Leadership and Learning

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When Someone is the Target of Gossip

It’s Not the Gossip That Gets Them. It’s What Their Brain Does Next. I wasn’t...
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Leadership is Trial and Error

Why Getting It Wrong Might Be the Most Important Skill You Have I was making...
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The Science Behind Gossip

And what leaders can do about it You know I let my neuroscience freak flag...
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When the Brain Switches to Emergency Power

Why leaders need to understand the brain’s hidden energy system Last month I was talking...
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They’re Acting Exactly As Trained

Why Teams Respond to Patterns More Than Policies Let me describe a workplace I see...
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You’re Not Overreacting, Your Brain Is Budgeting

What leaders misread when they ignore energy, context, and conditions This is the fourth Science...
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When You Can’t Change the Schedule

Using the Neuro Informed principles where you are.   Theodore Roosevelt once said, “Do what...
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We’re Not Arguing About Politics. We’re Protecting Predictions

A Super Bowl party, a tense moment, and what the brain was really doing  ...
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Two Small Strategies That Change School Culture

Why the schedule and the response to mistakes matter more than we think. After my...
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Designing Schools for the Brains Inside Them

A Neuro Informed Look at Youth Mental Health and School Systems I was reading news...