The Chief's Executive Functions

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Why important to you?

WIIFM

Not Brain Surgery

Well, Sort Of...

GPS for Business Growth

Hamper Or Foster Growth

Things you can do that make

• Your business
• Your brain
• Your team's brains
• Function as they were designed

Has Profitable Growth

Operating System

Ignore the operating system and your computer malfunctions.

Just like your computer, your brain operates by properties encoded & hardwired into that system.

Ignore your brain's natural operating system & it malfunctions.

Your thinking becomes flawed & your brain flounders.

You'll have a hard time getting your head around profitable growth.

Understanding the natural biology of your brain & your team members' brains

Will help you lead your company to success & profitable growth

Here's the rub...

As Chief Executive, If you operate in any way that makes your brain function
unable to perform

Or you create a team or culture where their brains cannot work properly

Profitable Growth

Chief Executive Functions

Chief Executive Functions

• Attention

Attention: focus on relevant
info & block that which is not relevant

Chief Executive Functions

• Attention
• Inhibition

Inhibition: ability to NOT do certain actions that may distract, be irrelevant or are destructive

Chief Executive Functions

• Attention
• Inhibition
• Working Memory

Working Memory: retain & access relevant info for reasoning, decisions
& further action

Which do you need to improve

• Attention
• Inhibition
• Working Memory

Our brains must

Our brains must be able to

• Focus on something specific

Our brains must be able to

• Not get off track by focusing on or being distracted by other data inputs or toxicity

Our brains must be able to

• Continuously be aware of relevant information at all times

Attention is like a
magic key

It unlocks higher order brain circuitry

Attention is essential but
it is not enough.

Attention can't thrive w/out its siblings inhibition & working memory

Great Chief Executives

Great Chief Executives

• Attend to what is important.

Great Chief Executives

• Attend to what is important.
• Inhibit what is not important

Great Chief Executives

• Attend to what is important.
• Inhibit what is not important
• Focus on relevant pieces required for profitable growth.

What do you need to focus on for profitable growth?

How do you keep disruptive, irrelevant or destructive info from getting your attention?

What structures, disciplines & practices help your team attend to what is important?

Chief Executive Functions

When you activate attention, inhibition & working memory properly

You enable the next level
of executive capabilities

Goal Selection

Goal Selection

• Choosing goals based on priority, relevance, experience, knowledge of reality while anticipating outcomes & consequences

Planning & Organization

Planning & Organization

• Generating steps & sequences of behaviors that lead to profitable growth, knowing what is needed along the way including strategies & resources

Initiation & Persistence

Initiation & Persistence

• Begin & maintain goal-directed behavior despite distractions, intrusions or changes in demands

Flexibility

Flexibility

• Ability to adapt, think strategically, solve problems (Adapt, Think, Solve)

Execution & Goal Attainment

Execution & Goal Attainment

• Execute the plan within the limits of time and other constraints (Execute Within Time)

Self Regulation

Self Regulation

• Use self-observation to monitor performance
• Self-judgement to evaluate performance
• Self-regulation to change to reach goal
• (Monitor/Evaluate/Regulate)

Which do you need to improve?

• Goal Selection
• Generate Behaviors & Strategy
• Begin & Maintain Behavior
• Adapt, Think, Solve
• Execute Within Time
• Monitor, Evaluate, Regulate