By: Michael Simmons on January 13, 2022
Why do we long for sex, potato chips and Disney World? Why do I get so excited about seeing my kids at the end of a long work day, or feel like the world is my oyster as I take my sip of coffee? Daniel Lieberman’s book The Molecule of More, is rooted in the…
By: Jonathan Lee on January 13, 2022
Daniel Lieberman and Michael Long, the authors of the book The Molecule of More, explain and explore dopamine’s role in human behavior. This book can be categorized under social science to analyze the essential functions of dopamine (the molecule of more) in current human behavior and society. The study of dopamine and serotonin has been…
By: Troy Rappold on January 13, 2022
In Daniel Lieberman and Michael Long’s book entitled, “The Molecule of More,” the authors take an in-depth view of the chemical dopamine and how it effects human behavior. It is a thin book, but the authors succinctly and successfully cover the wide-ranging effects this single molecule has on individuals and society. Indeed, this book left…
By: Roy Gruber on January 13, 2022
Why do some people continually strive for more and fail to enjoy what they have? Why do others find fulfillment in what they have but fail to pursue possibilities of a better future? An internal tension exists in every person. That tension presents a challenge to manage between what is and what could be. “The…
By: Eric Basye on January 13, 2022
The existence, and perhaps extinction, of our world hinges on dopamine, according to authors Lieberman and Long in The Molecule of More. Dopamine, a chemical in the brain, “makes you desire what you don’t yet have, and drives you to seek new things. It rewards you when you obey it, and makes you suffer when…
By: Andy Hale on January 12, 2022
Need a simplified understanding of neuroscience? “The Molecule of More” explores the dynamics of various chemicals in your brain and how they affect your feelings, perspectives, level of drive, and capacity for creativity. For a basic understanding of what’s going on in our cognition, the authors create two chemical categories, “down” and “up.” Think of…
By: Henry Gwani on January 12, 2022
Categorized under social science literature and based on the 1957 research of Kathleen Montagu[1], The Molecule of More is an enlightening book on mental health written by Daniel Lieberman and Michael Long. The authors are long-standing behavioral health experts who have written extensively on various mental health issues including the effect of Dopamine on mental…
By: Mary Kamau on December 5, 2021
The chameleon is known to change its skin color to adapt to its immediate environment and camouflage as a survival tactic. Adaptation to survive is a universal inborn or acquired characteristic of all living things and man is no exception. One key adaptive characteristic of human beings is to cover up their weaknesses and to…
By: Denise Johnson on December 4, 2021
People are the very building blocks of any organization, yet organizations, and even churches behave as though individuals are merely resources that are to be consumed by the organization in the process of accomplishing the goals. An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization, by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey shifts the…
By: Jonathan Lee on December 2, 2021
Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey coauthored An Everyone Culture – Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization. This book explores a new model for reaching everyone’s full potential as an organization by introducing what the authors call a DDO (Deliberately Developmental Organizations) to promote and value adult development as the highest culture in the company. It examined…
By: Andy Hale on December 2, 2021
What are the metrics of success for your organization? The bottom line? Surpassing sales quota? An elevation in worship attendance? What if the metrics we have created for our organizations put undue and unreasonable pressure on our employees to perform at an unreachable capacity? What if we have demanded so much of our staff based…
By: Nicole Richardson on December 2, 2021
The subtle definition of insanity–going in circles. We have never done it that way before so we will choose to keep doing the same thing in hopes we will get different results; big circles. Insanity is the subtle rationale for Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey’s book An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization.…
By: Elmarie Parker on December 2, 2021
For a while now I’ve been saying to myself, “I am tired of working for an organization that keeps making the same mistakes and seems unwilling to learn from them. I would like to start an organization where I can put to good use what I have learned from mistakes/failures and then make new mistakes/failures…
By: Henry Gwani on December 2, 2021
What might life look like if only a critical mass of the organizations in my ministry context had employees who were all maximizing their potential? It would mean several things including, but not limited to, a significantly transformed community with many individuals who pursue the presence of God, demonstrate a wide variety of character qualities,…
By: Troy Rappold on December 2, 2021
In the book, “An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization” Robert Kegan and Lisa L. Lahey assert that today’s organizations can become a nurturing place for all employees by tapping into their highest motivation, to learn and grow as individuals. The workplace does not have to be a hostile environment of competitiveness where it…
By: Mary Kamau on December 1, 2021
There have been many movements in the history of civilization but many are short-lived and are soon forgotten, other than for the records in history books. Such were the many empires that could only last a few decades and were conquered. The Roman empire was the more revered of these and the people of its…
By: Kayli Hillebrand on December 1, 2021
Robert Keagan and Lisa Lahey’s An Everyone Culture takes a look into the collective return on investment when a company becomes a DDO, Deliberately Developmental Organization, that empowers their employees at all levels to approach their roles in an authentic manner. At the root, Keagan and Lahey discuss how the ‘hiding’ an employee has to…
By: Roy Gruber on December 1, 2021
“Now Hiring: Part-time workers for full-time pay.” An offer like that sounds too good to be true. In An Everyone Culture, authors Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey state that part-time/full-time reality exists within most organizations. Great amounts of human resources get wasted by employees hiding their weaknesses and managing their images, playing office politics,…
By: Eric Basye on December 1, 2021
An Everyone Culture is a book about the development of people. Incorporating leadership, business, and psychology principles, authors Dr. Robert Kegan and Dr. Lisa Lahey address the importance of developing people to develop businesses. The two principles can coincide and certainly are not mutually exclusive. In fact, People Development + Business Development = the Good…
By: Mary Kamau on November 28, 2021
In our culture today, its not uncommon for any person who is self-focused to be labeled as prideful or on the extreme as narcissistic. Its not uncommon for people that have a strong personality and who exude confidence to be dismissed as narcissistic. I will dare wade into mucky waters of political controversy by referring…
