Courage is defined as mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty. We sometimes need to dig down deep. I know that you have it within you. The test is sometimes worse than the subject. It is within these tests that we find ourselves. It sounds easy like you can […]
With the firing of Ford CEO Mark Fields, it reminds me of times during my business career and the times I saw this missing the near. How does APEX thinking solve visionaries keep on track? Joe Dutkiewicz, founder and chief thought partner of Crayon Leadership, discusses the key to being aware of the vision of […]
We have seen people either take their eyes off the present or off the future. As a result they fail when one of those have a setback. Either the team or the company fails on its current goals and as a result its mission, or it fails in the future to take the steps necessary […]
When the distortions, the infighting, chaos, stuff hits the fan, happen at work, what returns the team to path ahead.Joe Dutkiewicz, founder and chief thought partner at Crayon Leadership, discusses how to take advantage of Thinking Blind to remove those distortions and forge forward. What do our teams do? When something happens what is the […]
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 […]
