The Left Brain Needs the Right Brain

July 22nd, 2016 left brain needs right brain

Wake up and Smell the Roses Here’s a tip on how to wake up and smell the roses for all the left brain dominated, innovative geniuses dedicated to improving the human condition. Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts is considered a hub of innovation — if not THE hub of innovation in the Boston area. A hub […]

Left Brain Right Brain

June 14th, 2011

Do you have the 21st Century Skills in your company to stimulate and foster critical thinking, creative problem solving and collaboration for innovation? Or are your in-house skills still based on the long-past Industrial Age MBA skills of analytical, logical, sequential, linear thinking? Face it, even the Technological Age ended as we entered the 21st […]

So, how do you get left-brain people to use more of their right brain? How do you turn efficiency into effectiveness?

October 2nd, 2015

Left-brain linear thinking drilled home throughout our formal educational process in the U.S. focuses on the most efficient way to solve problems. Decades of hearing “No, you can’t. Here’s the answer” sadly develops linear thought processes and that debilitating habit energy driving much of the thinking in corporate America today. Habit energy (mindlessness), is the rusty brain […]

Combining Right-Brain, Left-Brain Activities for Success

July 20th, 2015

Combining right brain activities with left brain activities is proving to be the most successful path to meaningful innovation by fostering critical thinking, creative problem solving and collaboration.

How to Present the WHY in your Research Value?

July 5th, 2016 left brain needs right brain

How to successfully present your research value. To successfully present your research value for a win/win with regulators, scientific advisory boards, investors and potential investors you need to use more of your right brain. As scientists, researchers, and medical professionals you’re geared to be logical, sequential, analytical, etc. — left brain thinkers. Thinkers who focus on […]

Powerful, Innovative, Creative Business Models

August 21st, 2015

Innovate or fall behind One of the pressures every major business faces today is innovate or fall behind. So how does an organization face the challenge of growing creative capital? So how do they tap the creative potential of their employees? A business’s underrated and untapped creative asset is their human capital. Studies show that […]

Yes! We can teach an old dog new tricks

August 11th, 2015

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Helps us See Thanks to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) we now know that the brain can be rewired at any age and we can teach an old dog new tricks. Through new experiences and new challenges new neurons will form. It is called neuroplasticity. Yes, you can teach baby boomers, and older […]

How do you translate efficiency into effectiveness?

May 12th, 2011

How do you get left brain people to use more of their right brain? How do you translate efficiency into effectiveness? Left-brain linear thinking drilled home throughout our formal educational process in the U.S. focuses on the most efficient way to problem solve. Decades of learning by “no you can’t and here’s the answer” sadly […]

How do you know that God looks like?

May 10th, 2011

“It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.” – Carl Sagan A young child was busy in class feverishly drawing away. The teacher approached and asked the girl what she was so busy drawing. The child responded, “I am drawing a picture of God.” The […]

It’s Not What You Say, it’s How You Say it That Counts

December 5th, 2019

It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it that counts. And even that’s not enough for you to be fully understood. There’s a big difference between what someone says as opposed to what they’re really saying. And this is where emotional intelligence comes into play. How sharp are your skills in reading the […]