In my blog Cancer Cured – Chapter II – Life Insurance, under the subtitle Dr. Zenk’s Diagnosis, I shared how I responded to learning I had Acute Myeloid Leukemia. What I didn’t share in detail was the torrent of self-condemnation, curse words, and mental self-flagellation that seemed endless to my family.
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Topics: Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose, 1% Plan, 99% Behavior, Change Your Mind Create New Results, Body Becomes the Mind
Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast - Why Change Must Become Your Strategic Advantage
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Sep 1, 2025
Peter Drucker is often credited with saying, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” While some debate whether the phrase was truly his, there’s no question Drucker emphasized the power of culture. As a Forbes article, Why Does Culture 'Eat Strategy For Breakfast'?, explains, his work highlights three timeless lessons:
Read MoreTopics: Change Your Culture, Neuro Change Solutions, Change Your Mind Create New Results
Many people ask me: What exactly is Neuro Change Solutions Training (NCS)? How does it work? What’s included?
Read MoreTopics: Neuro Change Solutions, Dr. Joe Dispensa, Change Your Mind Create New Results, NCS Training
The pace of change has never been faster—and it’s accelerating. Many feel overwhelmed, anxious, and uncertain about the future. Yet futurist Alvin Toffler warned in Future Shock back in 1970:
Read MoreTopics: Leadership Training, Pace of Change, Artificial Intenlligence (AI), Thrive in Uncertainty & Chaos, Neuro Change Solutions, Change Your Mind Create New Results, AI, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock
In Propeller: Accelerating Change by Getting Accountability Right, authors Tanner Corbridge, Jared Jones, Craig Hickman, and Tom Smith outline two distinct definitions of accountability that shape an organization's culture.
Read MoreTopics: Accountability, Propeller, Change Your Mind Create New Results, Excuses, See it, Own it, Solve it, Do it
Before a recent Neuro Change Solutions, Change Your Mind. Create New Results training, I met individually with each participant to review pre-training assignments. These conversations were designed to help them clarify what they truly wanted to gain from the experience.
Read MoreTopics: Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose, Neuro Change Solutions, Change Your Mind Create New Results
In Change Your Mind. Create New Results training, we learn that the average person has 60,000 to 70,000 thoughts a day. Remarkably, 90–95% of them are the same thoughts as yesterday.
Read MoreTopics: Culture of Discipline, Culture, High Performance Culture, Change Your Mind Create New Results
The Refractory Period - A Key to Emotional Intelligence and Culture Change
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Sun, Jul 20, 2025
In our last blog, we explored how it’s possible to become addicted to emotions. Today, we go a step further to uncover something just as critical: the refractory period — how long you remain emotionally reactive after an experience or event—and how this affects your personal well-being, leadership, and workplace culture.
Read MoreTopics: Culture of Discipline, emotional intelligence, Culture, Refractory Period, Change Your Mind Create New Results, Emotional Addiction, cultural change
Topics: emotional intelligence, Neuro Change Solutions, Change Your Mind Create New Results, Emotional Addiction, NCS Training