Imagine you’re leading a cross-departmental task force where you and a group of people are building an important new product feature. The deadline is tight, but you’ve got some of the company’s best people in the room. Things should go rather smoothly. But for some reason, they don’t. Over the course of several meetings, you begin to notice some limiting patterns of behavior. Bob overreacts to even the smallest issues and often storms out of meetings. Christine dominates conv

Here’s a fun fact. Your brain wasn’t designed for thinking or creating or caring or even communicating. Nuh-uh. Your brain evolved for the sole purpose of keeping your body alive. This fact may not be as romantic as the whole thinking, creating, caring, communicating thing, but it’s still pretty damn cool. Because the way your brain evolved to keep the rest of you alive was to become a super-duper, souped up prediction machine. After all, how better to keep your body alive th