Complex grief can deeply affect how leaders think, decide, and function at work. This article explores how complex, traumatic, ambiguous, and disenfranchised grief, especially after covert parental abuse, can impact work capacity, trust, and burnout, and offers practical steps to help leaders regain clarity, resilience, and work performance through five ways, including the SCRIBE framework.

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-free, leaning only...

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.