The Reptilian Brain
The unknown.
Fearful.
Out of our normal comfort zones.
A crisis.
Frequently doing what is counterintuitive for survival and change.
We are in a most unusual scenario (crisis) of which none of us has experience, and with this comes significant challenges and, therefore, even bigger opportunities.
Time to re-think a crisis into a great learning and development opportunity. Time at last to fix the broken.
Change
To do the thinking and change that enables us to re-think the impossible, leading our people through the perceived mental barriers. Planes grounded; an opportunity or a challenge?
Time to maintain and develop your team, saving time and money in preparation for the new beginning. Upgrading our people skills while we can.
Our reptilian brain
However, reptilian brain thinking will cause fear and panic, leading to short-term thinking around money and the future and a tremendous lost opportunity.
Time and people are our most significant resources and precious commodity - an opportunity to overhaul organisational thinking and strategy for this brave new world foisted upon us at a most inconsiderate juncture.
Crisis solutions
During WW2, Churchill created his War Rooms, planning the master plan so that his leaders (such as General Montgomery and others) could deliver a ‘big picture’ and execute accordingly.
Productivity in the USA tripled during those war years and afterwards returned to normal. It’s amazing what a good crisis can do for productivity!
Leaders
Our opportunity/challenge as leaders during this emergency is how we, as leaders, individuals, teams, and collective corporations, can become even more productive, making our sales/production and support functions upgrade their thinking and strategies.
Utilise your most precious commodity of people and time.
Has anything changed, or are we being hi-jacked by the new crisis forcing us into reptilian brain thinking, which, at best, and almost by default, forces us into doing the opposite of what is required to thrive and grow in this new environment?
The Fittest
We all need to be stronger, fitter, and faster than before, seeing this challenge as a great new learning environment in which we must survive.
What is your master plan for ‘business not normal’ but twice as productive and utilising new learnings to grow and fix all the carried forward corporate issues that linger in our organisations like a virus waiting to strike us down?
This is a time for genuinely amazing thinking and mindset.
A time for change and challenge of all our well-embedded paradigms, the ones that stop us from turning this crisis into a master plan of ingenuity and performance, previously unknown to the current business community and its leaders.
We have time, people and need, so let’s use these to re-invent our thinking/mindset and create, through our people, new ways of leading, thinking and achieving what, in non-crisis times, would be considered impossible!
Stronger coming out than going in.
Food for thought?
I hope so, and if you would like to know more about how you can turn this crisis to your personal or corporate advantage, please get in touch with me.