Thriving During Permacrisis

BI Worldwide reports that 50 of employees in the US age 3544 are burned out 45 of those 1834 and 43 of those 4554McKinsey reports that 53 of corporate leaders think they are burned out at work and 80 of them think they are unprepared for their leadership roles And that 56 of employees think their boss is toxic and 75 think their boss is a source of stressBack in the 20th Century I published predictions about an upside scenario and a downside scenario for the period we are now living through My downside scenario unfortunately is the one that came true Some of the more bizarre and troubling things we see in our daily lives today were beyond my ability to imagine ever really happeningI always had wanted to be a writer but I also wanted to have something to write about that would really help peopleI began in my 30s to recommend methods to executives and everyone to transform stressful inputs into creative solutions by maintaining first an Observer state and then a Flow state ie by a change in mind style Making these states a way of life can be a transformational experience as it was for me as I thought up creative solutions for myself Millions of people are now engaged at least sometimes in some of the mind styles I recommended in that book Mind Magic and by others in what was to be called the mindfulness field Back when my first book came out mindfulness was a term used only in Buddhist circles However mindfulness does not cover all of what one needs to know to thrive during the permacrisisIamp8217ve always felt that there had to be an effective yet efficient way for top corporate executives to receive and internalize the information and exercises they need to cultivate creative and fearless lives through a change in mental style And a change they would then want their workers to have too so that maximum harmony and productivity firmwide would be natural Until now I hadnamp8217t felt that I had the critical mass I would need to accomplish such an ambitious taskDr Jerry Zaltman is a bestselling author and sociologist steeped in cognitive science and neuroscience who taught at The Harvard Business School He is best known for his work on the primary importance of consumer decisionmaking that takes place below the level of oneamp8217s conscious awareness He is also the inventor of the patented ZMETamp174 method of obtaining subconscious responses during indepth interviews with the assistance of images and metaphors He has used ZMET to understand the other 20 of top executives who donamp8217t think of themselves as burned out or as unprepared the ones who have gotten through the permacrisis with flying colorsHis finding these people have a different style of thinking Jerry looks at these phenomena through a different lens than I do which makes our work wonderfully synergistic Broadly speaking in my lens these successful executives are operating in Observer State and often even in Flow state most of the time they are on the job which is almost always They are achieving that state by methods dissected by Jerry and I in complementary ways he has six major methods and I have 12 and they both work and together they work most effectivelyToday September 18 2024 Jerry Chaim and I have just announced our Transformational Workshops for C Suites The first step is an indepth Zoom meeting with the C Suite The second step is diffusion through the organization using a digital kit and 20 minutes a day of strategic thinking time about amp8220Your Purposeamp8221 The amp8220thinkingamp8221 includes feeling meditation contemplation imagination intuition concentration introspection and inner attention Read more about the CSuite WorkshopsAccording to Chaim the ability to transform oneamp8217s company depends on first transforming oneamp8216s life by adopting wellbeing Wellbeing includes achieving balance between work and life how much you sleep per night quality of food time per day for physical activity time to reflect on your lifeMeasurements of effects is central to the process so that it is accountableGetting everyone into Flow state means releasing the passion work they want to do for their company The amp8220go to workamp8221 feeling ought to be joy and excitement Finding out what the employeeamp8217s gifts and dreams are is a first step to giving them more chance to express those aspirational parts of themselvesThose toxic bosses are toxic only because of their egos everyone knows that The best solution to belling the cat in this case is to remove the ego That is what the switch in mind style is all aboutAs you know it is very hard to attain yogic control over your own egoHowever it is achievable and Jerryamp8217s study of successful executives proves that itamp8217s not impossible Jerry Chaim and I have come up with slightly different exercises to training the mind muscles and they all work or we ourselves would have stopped using themIn economic terms expunging ego behaviors as well as integrating wellbeing into the organization culture is priceless And in terms of human value the same is even more true the pleasure level at work has a long way to go up and itamp8217s overdue for a kickstartPosted at MediaVillage through the Thought Leadership selfpublishing platformClick the social buttons to share this story with colleagues and friendsThe opinions expressed here are the author39s views and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillageorgMyersBizNet

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