Hervé Da Costa - Learn leadership from Karate - Develop your excellence Embrace leadership mastery and learn from Karate-Do Learn the 4 levels of awareness and competence. Discover the 3 key principles that create Mastery. I am sharing the key lessons from over 40 years of martial arts practice on 3 continents: Africa, Europe, and the US. I introduce the foundations of my leadership development approach and how you can transform yourself durably - create the best version of yourself.
Most executives will not admit that their behaviors could be perceived as subversive; they may sincerely not realize that they are. What are people complaining about in company hallways? This article by Hervé Da Costa discusses the key reasons for those behaviors and how to begin to address them to elicit real positive change — Everybody Wins.
In my book What Color Is Your Sky?, I introduce the concept of living on the green curve, a resilient, focused, proactive way of living daily. Learning and perfecting specific life skills and attitudes can be a game-changer. In particular, I encourage you to read and practice the Deliberate Morning Program.
This implies that, over time, you learn from hardship and persist. How can you suffer real setbacks and not falter? During these times of anxiety and deep change, what helps people ultimately bounce back? Find out how resilience at work can literally save lives.
“More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person’s level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails. That’s true in the cancer ward, it’s true in the Olympics, and it’s true in the boardroom.” — Dean Becker, president, and CEO of Adaptive Learning Systems.
Resilience can be learned. I recently read an excellent article from Harvard Business Review: “How Resilience Works,” by Diane Coutu, director of client communications at Banyan Family Business Advisors, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which introduces 3 characteristics that may reinforce this:
Face and accept reality: Resilient people have down-to-earth views that matter for survival. Pushing for a sense of possibility is powerful, but for longer or bigger challenges, a grounded sense of reality is far more important. Ask yourself: “Do I truly understand—and accept—the reality of my situation? Does my organization?”
Search for meaning: Reframing your situation and seeking a deeper meaning to what is happening can mean the difference between giving up and hanging in there, believing in a better-constructed future. The reference book on this matter is Viktor Frankl’s book Man’s Search for Meaning. I encourage you to spend time clarifying your personal purpose and that of your company’s.
Become a bricoleur: Keep bouncing back by doing the most with what you have. You may need to improvise solutions from thin air. This calls for agility, positivity, and enthusiasm.
Are you facing serious transformational challenges in your company? If you are, simply drop me a line at sky@herve.com.
Hervé Da Costa wants you to realize how much is going on in your mind and to practice putting it aside, reducing the noise inside, focusing on one simple thought: thinking about nothing. This practice itself can be magical. As one workshop participant I would find myself coming to know very well once said, it feels like “taking a vacation away from myself.”
Sometimes your actions do not yield the results you want and discouragement kicks in. Getting out of it is about shifting your state of mind and not staying stuck in it. It is about reframing the situation so you can get back to action, finding solutions and making things happen for you.
