Gridlock follows ego, shuts out brainpower, and adds suspicions, while transparency fosters innovation and increases trust. Have you seen bullies and cynics keep ego alive in backdoor deals?
Flawed leadership, whether you call it democracy or dictatorship, brings out more gridlock than genius, and drains the transparency it takes to cultivate innovation.
While backdoor deals deny transparency, successful innovators tend to rev up mental equipment daily to swim where others sink. Leaders like Obama illustrate how creativity and curiosity will trump criticism and intimidation. How then can you experience mental power in settings without cynicism and where no brain is left behind?
One friend and fellow leader Dave Caiazza, put it this way:
Work against the dangerous twins of jealousy and hypocrisy. They come disguised as concern, shrouded in statistics, and hidden behind a smile. When you’re good at something, there will always be someone who wants to undo you. Don’t let them.
Here are a few brain based tactics to build transparency for innovation, in spite of toxins from bullies or cynics who cause backdoor deals:
1. Awaken more intrapersonal intelligence for a brain powered climate and invite others to do the same.
2. Respond to confrontations by snipping your amygdala before you snipe back too soon and regret words spoken.
3. Spot opportunities within broken systems – those few small openings to join with like minded leaders who risk riding transparency’s surf.
4. Relate neuro discoveries to enhance personal actions when conflict strikes and angel or devil parts of your brain battle for supremacy.
5. Offer mental olive branches for people who disagree with your position, and then move on without forcing agreement from that person.
6. Hone brainpower tools to extend peace rather than promote war whenever unpredictable battles begin.
7. Suggest simplicity that adds intelligence to remove the mental clutter and reboot ethical practices with dividends for all.
8. Avoid hidden traps of cynicism by building good tone skills that open new gateways for all to speak and feel heard.
9. Brainstorm solutions with innovative peers rather than join in with naysayers who toss toxins into the mental mix.
10. Activate, encourage and develop mental equipment that is rarely found among the tragic traits of a cynic.
Leaders create the climate for backdoor deals, whenever their negativity or cynicism empowers bullies to collaborate for a wider good. Step into any gridlock situation and you’ll spot a cynic’s toxins destroy brainpower for diverse participation and mutual profitability. Have you seen it?
Luckily, newly discovered mental equipment offer tools to build and sustain brain powered climates so desperately needed to beat recession. Innovation increases through facilitating diversity with new neuron pathways to dynamic innovation. See why transparency’s not possible when ego pushes gridlock?
