My blog
My thoughts and readings on
organizational neuroscience,
neuroscience based coaching,
and applied neuroscience.
Think for a minute about these persons: Taylor Swift, singer and advocate of artists’ rights; Nikola Tesla, inventor and engineer known for his contributions to electricity and magnetism; Stephen Hawking, physicist and cosmologist known for his theory of evolution by natural selection.
What might have these persons in common beyond the fact of being some good examples of human creativity and achievement? Probably not too much, with the exception that they were or are self-sufficient.
The person who seemed lucky when, at 30, I was appointed as General Counsel of the Mexican subsidiary of a German automotive parts company. My thoughts on that? Surely, there must have been someone else better qualified for the position, but he didn’t go to the office that day. Therefore, […]
These are the wise words of Dr. Ramani, a mental health expert on navigating narcissism. Unfortunately, as a lawyer, running away from your narcissistic client, boss, colleague, judge, or any other person related to your legal practice only happens in utopia. Below is a summary of some strategies shared by Dr. Ramani […]
Did you know that positive conversations produce a chemical reaction in your brain? In a trusting conversation like the one between a coach and her client, the production of oxytocin, “the love hormone”, is activated which improves our ability to communicate, collaborate and trust others by activating networks in our […]
In western countries, when we visualize the image of a mother and her young child, we tend to see a picture of what society expects from a mother: unconditional love, tenderness, attention, tolerance, patience, care, wisdom, even friendship… the list can be endless. However, it is rarely taken into account […]
If an agile organization had a personality of its own it would probably be the one of the Cheshire Cat: “I am not crazy, it is just that my reality is different from yours…” The dear and trickster Cheshire Cat, even though appears to be mad, actually gives strong glimpses of […]
From time to time I receive requests from ex-colleagues and friends associated with talent acquisition or with legal departments asking me for help to find specific candidates to fill their legal positions. Usually the requests go like this – “Could you share this position on your LinkedIn page? I have […]
I recently came across an article that very enthusiastically promoted the implementation of a Board of Directors whenever a company wanted to become as big as one of the leading web search engines corporations. Along with some of the benefits that a Board may bring to a company, the article […]
For years as an employee or General Counsel, who sadly had no knowledge at all on human resources matters, was hard to argue and convince HR specialists that annual performance appraisals were, at times, simply not working for us, and on the contrary they were intoxicating our working environment, either […]
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