At the core, leadership is about influencing people to achieve goals. This is one of the best studied phenomena in the modern sciences of mind. No need for jargon, ‘secret methods’, or ‘cutting edge’ mystique. If you want to be a better leader, improve the culture of your team, or just learn how people work, then we’ll help you make transparent, measurable change in your dealings with others.
Make measurable change
Leadership development, executive coaching, and culture transformation programs are full of jargon and mystique. Gurus with secret formulas that can help you or your team reach their full potential. But science doesn’t have much in the way of secrets, and leadership and interpersonal dynamics are some of the best studied. Let me show you.
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This is a very simple pitch. I want you to do a favour for me. I want you to go to whatever program on leadership, coaching, interpersonal dynamics, or culture change you’re eyeing, and ask the question “how do you measure impact?” If they have something more substantial to say than “measuring impact is hard”, a bustle of optimistic phraseology, and a logo cloud, then you probably don’t need to be here. If you, however, have not come away with a clear idea of how they measure impact, then even if you decide Karstica is not for you, you’ll benefit by reading on.
If this hasn’t already occurred to you, I hope you’ll take it from me: a Cambridge-educated brain scientist with ten years of clinical experience, a six year military career culminating as an Infantry platoon commander, and several years dabbling in management consulting, most of these problems have already been solved.
Modern sciences of mind are over 100-years old. Problems of personal development, leadership, and the dynamics of collectives are a core concern of this branch of science. These programs know this. This is why you’ll often see them deploy quotes like those you’re seeing slide across the website now. The military is arguably the oldest professional trade, and a main priority is the development of it’s leaders. There’s no need to re-invent the wheel. That’s just just true of content, but outcome too.
Hence Karstica. From karst, gorgeous natural landscapes characterised by sinkholes, caves, and underground rivers, the idea here is to help you watch where you walking. If you want to:
No reason not to see what we can do for you, right?
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Today I want to tell a story. It’s one of my favourites. Certainly my favourite ‘when I was a consultant’ story. Hopefully, we’ll laugh a little, and then I’ll use it to point out three ‘problems’ that often get in the way of us solving <em>other</em> problems. I won’t really have a solution. I just think it’s amusing.
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I’m often struck by just how much of the pop-psych/neuroscience advice one sees for the average working person boils down to little more than “just cool the fuck out, and you’ll be better at stuff”. I guess, more to the point, I’m often left wondering why we feel the need to over-engineer this kind of thing so egregiously, particularly when most of these theories seem to produce as much bad advice as good advice. I have some thoughts, but let me show you what I mean, and maybe we’ll work out what’s so attractive about it along the way.
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