Dave Robinson with Carey Lohrenz on Welcome To My Office podcast
Carey welcomes Dave Robinson, the Founder and CEO of Vertical Performance Enterprises to her office. Dave is a senior executive and retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel.
Carey welcomes Dave Robinson, the Founder and CEO of Vertical Performance Enterprises to her office. Dave is a senior executive and retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel.
Marc Polymeropoulos steps into Carey’s office this week. Marc is one of the most decorated CIA officers of the modern era.
You already know about those typical responses to stress, exhaustion, and overwhelm called fight, flight, or freeze. In the first, your self-protection mechanisms activate to meet obstacles head on with an eye to overcoming or overpowering the stressors. In the second, your inclination to escape kicks in and quickly moves you away from stressful triggers.
Joining Carey in her office is Michael Clinton. Michael is the former President and Publishing Director of Hearst Magazines.
In my work with executives and managers across industries, I often hear stories about people feeling as though they’re teetering on the edge of a breakdown, more commonly called burnout, from extreme or chronic stress. All too often, they’ll imagine that the solution is to eliminate stress as much as possible. I absolutely understand the need to avoid burnout, but eliminating all stress should not be the goal.
The refrain among leaders across industries is much the same: we’re all feeling called upon to do more with less. There are a number of good recommendations out there for improving the way our brains manage that stress. How can we prevent task overload? I want to add one more critical tool to the mix—a concept I learned in Naval Aviation training called “The Bucket.”
During a crisis, we can start to feel time compress. That means time seems to speed by out of control. Feeling time compress can lead us to fall back on thoughtless knee-jerk reactions and bad decision making. How can we make better decisions under stress?
Walking into Carey’s office this week is a volleyball legend, entrepreneur, fitness expert, bestselling author, and podcast host, Gabrielle Reece.
Most of us, especially us Type A’s, like to think we’re great multitaskers. We check our email and text messages while listening in on a Zoom meeting, working on a spreadsheet, and scrolling Twitter or a news site. In this age of distraction, multitasking seems like a useful superpower to have. Unfortunately, it isn’t even real.
Frank Calderoni takes a seat in Carey’s office this week. Frank is the CEO & Chairman of Anaplan, a cloud-based business planning service company.