Building a Culture of Innovation and Ethical Leadership in the Life Sciences Industry: The Importance of Self-Awareness
Self-awareness is particularly important in the life sciences industry due to the constantly evolving technologies, scientific breakthroughs, and ethical considerations. By cultivating self-awareness, life science leaders can avoid patterns of thinking that stifle creativity and limit the potential for new discoveries. Additionally, they can make informed and ethical decisions that benefit society as a whole and maintain the organization’s reputation for integrity and ethical conduct.
Learning to Listen
Are you directing or developing your team? James, a CEO, listened to the difficulties his Director, Pete, was facing carefully. He tried to put himself in Pete’s shoes and think about it from his perspective. He crafted his solutions to the problem with all that Pete...
One Simple Strategy for Developing Self-Awareness
How Free-writing Accesses Your Inner Thoughts What is Freewriting? Freewriting is essentially writing what is on your mind. But, it is doing it without thinking it through or stifling your first thoughts. There is no analysis, it is just putting it all out there. It...
Finding Happiness
Do you believe you have the capacity to change? Happiness is becoming a global pursuit. Yuval Noah Harari has argued that as advances in technology are rendering the primary concerns of humankind, starvation, war and plague irrelevant that we are becoming increasingly...
This one practice can put you back in control
Our emotions reflect our biology. This is an important fact that we tend to forget when dealing with stressful situations. Emotions are simply the end result of our neurons firing, and activating neurotransmitters to create connections between our brain cells, which...
Are You Aware of Your Stress Levels?
At work John often felt he wasn’t doing enough if he wasn’t overloaded and “busy”. Constantly multitasking and racing to keep ahead of deadlines he wondered why he felt so stressed when others around him seemed to be accomplishing all of this and more. They didn’t...
A Psychologists View of Diversity and Self-Acceptance
I grew up privileged. I am white, middle class with professional parents. I come from a developed country that cares for it citizens in times of need. I attended an excellent school with people who had similar capabilities to me. In many ways I was, as many of us are,...
How developing self-awareness can explode your leadership ability.
How much attention do you pay to your experience and how it impacts others? Holding a piece of quartz, I am reminded of the intricacy of our emotional lives. The smooth exterior belies the fragmented nature of what lies within. Turning the quartz reveals cracks and...