Searching for Serenity in a VUCA-Plus World
I broaden consideration of each VUCA-Plus element—considering the polarities associated with each element. I also introduce the opposite of VUCA-Plus.
I broaden consideration of each VUCA-Plus element—considering the polarities associated with each element. I also introduce the opposite of VUCA-Plus.
The Ark of Leadership: An Integrative Perspective By William Bergquist, Jeannine Sandstrom and Agnes Mura To download this sample chapter, click the red button below. To purchase the book, click the link on book title above. Chapter 2 On Board the Ark – The Storm We Are Weathering Noah built his Ark in preparation for a great storm. We are …
If Actionable Insighting leads to the crystallization of the Central Operating Principle, then the Central Operating Principle should guide the ultimate executions (using the same approach) of that principle:
We believe that Thinking Whole, and the concept of Thinking Whole that spawned it, are playing a small part in that expansion of understanding; particularly when it comes to actionability. We believe our contribution adds the prescriptive dimension to this conversation.
I focus on ways we can manage the challenges and accompanying stress of contemporary times—while fulfilling our own needs and life purposes (healing our heart).
I propose many of us are stuck in our own personal armament. We are defending against the often-traumatizing challenges of mid-21st Century life. Psychological rain is falling on us. Our armor is quickly rusting. Our hearts are wounded and encased in the rusted armor. We need some oil and some healing of our heart.
There is a big market for cheating in our mid-21st Century world. Frankly, we have all done some cheating in our life. These are what we identify as Soft Cheats—accompanied by Soft Lies. There are of course the Hard Cheats and the Hard Lies. How do we handle soft and hard cheats as coaches?
William Bergquist, Ph.D. and Kevin Weitz,Psy.D. (Authoritarian Personalities) seem to combine the worst elements of each kind of personality, being power-hungry, unsupportive of equality, manipulative, and amoral, as social dominators are in general, while also being religiously ethnocentric and dogmatic, as right-wing authoritarians tend to be. The author suggested that, although they are small in number, such persons can have …
Kevin Weitz, Psy.D. and William Bergquist, Ph.D. To recognize superior expertise would require people to have already a surfeit of expertise themselves. David Dunning (2012) There is a growing body of knowledge coming out of psychology and cognitive science that you have no clue why you act the way you do. David McRaney (2012) In our previous essay on “the …
We focus on the psychology of how influential people use language to propagate misinformation and lies for their own benefit and how it is possible that so many people actually believe them.
Valerie Pelan: Your book is a major accomplishment and well needed in the field of coaching. Th...