This article explains the challenge of growing with inherent dignity and what you can do about it. Let’s explore… “I think, therefore I am” This statement by René Descartes became a fundamental element of Western philosophy and is at the heart of the western analytical approach to life. It is self-focused. “I am, because of the others” This statement…
Life Styles Inventory™ Research and development by Robert A. Cooke, Ph.D. and J. Clayton Lafferty, Ph.D. The Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) is an organisational tool that uses both self-assessment and colleague feedback to identify individual thinking and behavioural styles. By providing insights into strengths and areas for development, it empowers people to embark on their own journeys to…
Traditional personality profiles such as Myers- Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI), FIRO B, DiSC® and Hogan instruments can be beneficial. They show you what your predisposition is to different behaviours. The downside to personality-based tools is that they are difficult to use as a benchmark. Personality, in general, stays the same unless we have a significant…
“There is a cloud that, in a way, haunts me, or at least I keep finding it everywhere that I look, and that is Efrat’s Cloud.” – Dr. Kelvyn Youngman. In 1995 Efrat Goldratt was a Ph.D. student in Israel. She is the daughter of Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt who conceived the Theory of Constraints Thinking…
Most people understand that our current thinking and behaviour is caused by our experiences in the past. If an experience worked for us, then our brain stores the thinking and behaviour for later use and creates a neural shortcut. If it didn’t work, then the thought is more likely to degrade. There is a little…
As human beings, we have the capacity for curiosity as well as logic and reason but the way our brains sometimes work against us. Over time, we develop thinking and behaviours that don’t serve us as well as they used to. Sometimes that old thinking and behaviour causes us problems and reduces our ability to…
The Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) is one of the Human Synergistics International tools for individuals. It is actually two tools: The first is Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI 1). This tool provides participants with the answer to the question “How do I think I think?” The second is Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI 2). This tool provides participants…
A colleague recently sent me an article titled “Bad to great: The path to scaling up excellence“ from McKinsey.com. The subtile is “Before senior executives try to spread best practices, they should use seven techniques to clear out negative behaviour that stands in the way.” The key message is: “Yet case studies and rigorous academic research show that if you…
Both passive and aggressive behaviour is defensive. All defensive behaviour originates from within our thinking. At the core of all defensiveness, whether it is physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual, is a thought, which often has grown into a belief that we must protect our selves from others, go it alone and be self-sufficient. In essence,…
