New Book:  Instant Charisma Using Your Right Brain

The mysteries of Charisma have fascinated people for centuries.   What is it?  How can you get some?  

  Now, many of these mysteries have been solved recently by a neuro-anatomist who suffered a brain stroke in her Left Brain.

  She stayed conscious for four hours before asking for outside help, processing her experience mostly with her Right Brain, and remembered the four hours from the inside perspective. 

   The unique energy component of Charisma is strongly indicated by her recollection of experiencing her Right Brain being dominant.    What she learned that day combined with her previous training and research illuminates how the Right Brain processes information.  This Right Brain processing seems to be the key to capturing Charisma.   She remembered the bliss, joy and expansive feeling of processing with the Right Brain, without the fears and constraints of the Left Brain.

Free Article:  Leadership Skills for a Crisis

Genie Z. Laborde, Ph.D.

TIME. TIME. TIME is the main problem. Or rather, lack of time. Too little time to plan, to decide, to execute the plan.

Your usual coping strategies, even your best ones, may not work in a crisis. New strategies for gathering information, judging its usefulness, and deciding on the best option are absolutely necessary.

You've probably never faced a situation like this. That's why it's a "CRISIS". Otherwise, it would be a problem or a challenge, but not a crisis. For a problem or a challenge, you have a set of learned behaviors, such as 1. gather the facts, 2. consider options, 3. choose the best, then 4. act. There is no need to be fast thinking, no time restriction.

In a crisis, you need perceptual skills of a different order. You must be quick to look, listen, feel, and smell to gather the pertinent information for survival. In our culture, we've seldom had to do this. Maybe never before.