Two-footed questions drive curiosity and they can even convert ordinary minds into expert problem solvers? You’d likely agree that most people tend to ask questions with predictable answers. But add a second foot to your question and watch how it suddenly draws from both sides of the human brain for dynamic and surprising responses. How so?
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10 Whole Brain Essentials for Innovative Era
1. Ask – don’t tell. What if you were to ask one innovative question to a leader you encounter? What if you held back a strong opinion, in favor of learning from others today? Imagine the ground-breaking results for innovative workplace solutions you pioneer. Yet experts remind us how innovation loses because leaders remain locked [...]
Urgently Needed! Rt Brain Leaders for Innovation Era
New research on right brainpowered innovation shows a pathway of possibilities for leaders ready to take the leap, says researcher Ibrahim Senay. Savants point to enormous innovative opportunities that come with right brain leadership. The key is to short circuit rusty approaches, in favor of practices that segue into innovative pathways forward. How so? Question, [...]
Survey Your Meetings for Brainpower
Are your meetings brain draining, or brain powering? The idea is to engage both sides of the brain, to increase innovation. Respond either yes or no to each survey question and then check scores against brainpowered answers below: 1. Is boredom more a reality at your meeting than passion to engage agenda? Yes ___ No ___ [...]
Question into Right and Left Brainpower
Following a question can power up your day. How so? To choose a pathway of possibilities through questions – says researcher Ibrahim Senay – is to encounter unexpected benefits. I agree. Ask questions, like open-minded people do, and you’ll stir up motivation as well as cultivate curiosity. The kind of curiosity that spots a rainbow [...]
Work with Rita Right-Brain?
Researchers at Queensland Brain Institute may have identified the molecule that links left and right brainpower, but Rita Right Brain’s the gal who uses it most at work. Professor Helen Cooper said her group’s research provided new clues regarding development of the corpus callosum, and yet Rita’s corpus callosum of millions of individual nerve fibers [...]
Blokes and Babes Where You Work
Heaven or Havoc? Which of these characters work with or in you? Serotonin Sam: “Feelin’ good – hey guys you’re welcome to share, anytime.” Cortisol Carol “Touch my stuff and you die!” Plasticity Patty: “Glad to know I can still nail this new knack at any age.” Amygdala Arnie: “They keep changing the freakin’ formulas [...]
