Dr. Shalini Jebasingh, Leadership Scholar and Founder of Eirene Group, reviewing Ronald Heifetz’s "Leadership Without Easy Answers." This review explores how the SCRIBE Framework and value-based leadership can close the gap between current reality and adaptive change. In the opening pages of his book, Heifetz (1994, p. 17) showed that age-old theories of leadership, such as the Trait, Situational, Contingency, and Transactional theories of leadership, may appear to be value-f

Your work environment constantly shapes your brain’s structure and wiring—its neural architecture. With intentional effort, your brain has an amazing inbuilt ability to transform complex workplace challenges into meaningful wins. So, if you or your team feel stalled, the answer is not withdrawal; it is neural activation. And one of the most powerful and effective ways to do that is through healthy collaboration.

Dr. Shalini Jebasingh reflects on growth mindset and abundance thinking in the workplace after an unexpected lesson from a young country-rap artist. Exploring how supportive systems shape resilience, leadership, and fulfillment at work, she examines why sustainable growth rarely happens in isolation and how leaders can cultivate environments where individuals and teams truly thrive.

Under critical stress, leaders with high-values often mistake a temporary state of reduced capacity for a permanent trait flaw. Learn the trait vs. state distinction, how it reduces self-blame, and how the SCRIBE Framework helps restore work functioning.

When critical stress or trauma hits, a leader’s capacity to think, decide, and lead effectively often collapses. This "foggy" feeling, emotional reactivity, or even shutdown is not who the leader is; it is their brain in survival mode. In this article, I introduce the SCRIBE Model, a conceptual framework designed to help leaders regain work capacity through neurobiology and organizational frames. This model may help move from survival to capacity restoration and thriving in

In my last post, I wrote about James Autry’s leadership and leading with love.   But if you are under critical stress right now, or managing PTSD or complex PTSD triggers, that message may have felt out of reach.   You know you care about people. But you don’t feel it, and your triggers sure don’t show it.   So the question becomes: Can you still lead with love? Can you still care for your team or customers?   The answer is yes.   Loving others while under critical stress or

James Autry is probably a name you have not heard. But, if you are a Boomer, Gen X-er, or Gen Y, you have most likely heard of or read one of his company’s publications: Better Homes and Gardens . Autry joined Meredith Corporation, the company that published Better Homes and Gardens and other magazines, in 1960 as a copy editor. Ten years later, he became its president.   Under Autry’s leadership, the company expanded into additional publications and made several key acquisit

Who you are, your personality and core beliefs, and what you value in your core being, subconsciously but powerfully shape how you show up at work. Long before performance metrics or job titles come into play, identity and values are at work, influencing your decisions and sense of fulfillment. Here are five ways this happens. 1. Your values guide your decisions and behavior. Each of us carries a personal moral compass. It operates along a continuum—from motives to behaviors