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Senior Curator and GeneralLeadership.com CEO, Brigadier General John E. Michel shares his insight into the power of believing there is a better way. He discusses that the positive effects of people’s actions were never realized by fearing change. Instead, each of them was the result of leveraging an opportunity for people to risk stepping out of their comfort zones to make different, more empowering choices.
John E. Michel is a widely recognized expert in culture, strategy & individual and organizational change. An accomplished unconventional leader and proven status quo buster, he has successfully led several multi-billion dollar transformation efforts and his award-winning work has been featured in a wide variety of articles and journals, including the Harvard Business Review. In addition to serving our nation as an active duty General Officer in the United States Air Force, John enjoys helping people learn to walk differently in the world so they can become the best version of themselves possible. He is blessed to be married to the most patient person on the planet and together, they have two amazing sons. You are encouraged to learn more about John at his website, www.MediocreMe.com
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General,
Great story to remind us of not what we are but what we can be.
I’ve read recently that we have two parts of our brain – heuristic side and cognitive side. Heuristic is quick to judge, quick to estimate but can be often wrong. Cognitive is thoughtful and calculating and if often right BUT is lazy and will often, if not always, defer to Heuristic. There are ways, each individual to a person, to spool up your cognitive size and have it ready in the wing.
I wonder, and your thoughts are greatly appreciated, if we can spend time spooling up our teams’ cognitive side versus the occasional fire-drill as to keep them thinking outside of the box and out of group-think.
best,
Ed Pierce