Leadership: Awakening your Best Self

Actually, it is about being fully human. Which means remembering that we are subject to the laws of the Animal Kingdom...........that's right! Before you are a CEO, a Lawyer, Engineer, Manager, Entrepreneur, Consultant or Coach; before you are a man or a woman, a graduate or a teacher, a singer, actor a spouse, friend, partner; mentor; member of any group.....You are part of the Animal Kingdom. This is FACT (no alternative facts here). Here's why:

Among the 'laws' that govern our behaviour is our survival instinct. The chemicals that fire in the body of all mammals (adrenalin, cortisol for example) when we perceive threat. This happens automatically and unconsciously and when adrenalin fires, we immediately react to protect our very existence. Fight, Flight or Freeze - basic behavioural reactions to ensure our survival (and to avoid discomfort).

But somehow, we keep reacting to change as though it were danger - so the adrenalin fires and our work life is immersed in adrenalin fuelled reaction. Consciously or unconsciously, we are at the mercy of our adrenalin (linked to anxiety) and our equilibrium is upset. This does not make for best decision-making. "In the presence of agitated emotion, thinking is impaired" (ref. Gonzalez and Moliné: Follow this Path)