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Leveraging your brain to increase strategic speed

Leveraging your brain to increase strategic speed

From the course: Leveraging Neuroscience in the Workplace

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Leveraging your brain to increase strategic speed

- Research indicates that companies who execute their strategies faster than others have three core features. They have greater clarity, more unity, and greater agility. Let's take a look at how you can change your mindset to change your brain so that you can work faster and more productively. This reminds me of a technology team in a Fortune 500 company that I once worked with. They wanted to understand how to change their way of thinking so that the team could bring their products to market faster. First, we looked at clarity. We discovered that the team appeared to be very motivated and goal oriented but because they were stressed, they could not see new possibilities clearly. That's because stress puts the brain in habit mode and muddies new thinking. Then, we looked at unity. The teams within the company weren't unified because the design and programming teams operated in silos. And when we looked at agility, we found that although the programming team was very smart, their…

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