Many obstacles may get in the way of the team reaching the performance they need to achieve the established goals to fulfill the business vision. Leaders think into the environment and become blind to the distortions of the egos in the room, biases aired, filters engaged to determine the path forward for the team to […]
“Break It” What is happening in your day? What’s holding you back from reaching what you want? Joe Dutkiewicz, founder and chief thought partner of crayon Leadership, discusses how to look at today and to launch into the weekend with something life changing.
We often feel our mind is overworked. “We just can’t think today…” or “Let me think…”, we tell ourselves. Usually it is because we are not relaxed and we are feeling stressed. What instructions are you giving your mind, your subconscious? Have you given it the right and best conditions to be ready to receive […]
Joe Dutkiewicz, founder and Chief Though Partner of Crayon Leadership, steps through Adhesion Thinking. Adhesion Thinking is critical to ensuring successful thoughts becoming uplifting solutions. After good ideas are shared and raised by the inner circle, normal go-to advisors and hierarchies, there are still two more critical steps often overlooked. We often want an idea […]
What number of good thoughts each day are sabotaged by ourselves and others? We establish boundaries for conversations and problem solving that rarely surpass the norm. Our thinking remains somewhere between stage 2 and stage 3 groupthink as we look not to “rock the ship”. APEX thinking leaders involve the skeptics to make their good […]
Do you lead with your position title when you are asked what you do rather than your mission or what brings meaning to your life? People living at the top of their living don’t hold onto a badge. They are known for what they do. What we do is sometimes blocked. There are 72 invisible […]
When are your thoughts at their best? When you nurture them and foster their growth. Too often our thoughts fly away like dried up leaves in a wind current never really to be seen again. When we get the idea good for work or in your personal time, make sure to share it at the […]
In school we are taught when writing to end each sentence with a period or another punctuation item, leave a space, and then start the next sentence. In similar fashion, we look to speak in sentences and complete thoughts. Complete thoughts are often overlooked and we speak crazy fast. When we do, we insert crutch […]
Whether it is our personal lives or in the workplace, we are trying to fly through the thoughts. What happens? We aren’t growing. We skip the moments to pause and develop the needed talents with each other to reach our personal or business destiny. Learn to capture the “Ummm” time between sentences to pause and […]
We are the makers of ourselves. We are easily distracted and have become lazier, allowing ourselves to think even less these days. Gone are the days where people would be around a table and foster deep conversation about the meaning of thoughts and learn from the lessons gained from experiences. We can’t be happy if […]
