April 26, 2012
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March 23, 2012
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In addition to the Everybody has a Brain Tumblr, we now have an Everybody has a Brain Pinterest board that has almost 300,000 followers. Our team of wonderful brain designers, Andrew, Matt, and Daniela, pin images on their that are meant to spark discussion on mental health and give people useful tips to proactively tackle mental health in their day-to-day lives. So check it out and if you’re on Pinterest, let me know and I’ll follow your boards.
February 23, 2012
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Especially if you’re ill, being healthy is a transformative innovation. But innovation is difficult. And not because coming up with innovative ideas is tough–just listen to a 3 year old talk for an hour and you’ll probably hear a million innovative ideas about how to get to the moon or defeat ninjas. Innovation is difficult because implementing innovation and getting from Step A (the innovative idea) to Step Z (the innovation as functioning reality) requires lots of collaboration, dedication, and leadership, and all three of those things can be very scary to many people. When it comes to innovation, having an innovative idea is irrelevant if you can’t implement it. Innovation is the implementation of a great idea.
There are fantastic project management and design thinking tools we can borrow from the world of business and apply in our own lives to make the process of innovative personal change simpler and more effective.
Continue reading “Health is the implementation of innovation.” »
February 23, 2012
by Mark
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When it comes to anxiety disorders, the anxiety often gets blamed as the source of the problem, but really it’s our reaction to anxiety that’s unhealthy. Anxiety is normal. But attempts to cope with, check on, or control uncertainty lead to compulsive behaviors with negative impacts on our health.
This is as true in business as it is in our personal lives. When people encounter uncertainty (and the resulting anxiety) at work, they experience a need to be certain, and if there are great systems in place, they’ll resolve that uncertainty by doing something they’ve done before, which is likely something that’s safe, unhealthy, not innovative, and likely to only push off important decisions until later. Great business teams resolve this with visual communication techniques that eliminate unnecessary uncertainties, and by sticking to articulated values. As Jim Collins points out in several of his books about what makes companies beat the competition, his research shows that consistently implementing values is one of the key factors. It doesn’t even matter what the values are, only that they’re consistently articulated and implemented.
Continue reading “Let healthy project values guide your actions.” »