Myers-Briggs 2.0
For at the end of the day it isn’t about living up to our primary personality and temperament preference, it is about recognizing the power of our opposite personality and temperament tendencies as well.
Posts By richard regan
Help Wanted: Grit Needed
Grit may be a better indicator of long-term success than intelligence and mindfulness.
Suffering From Imposter Syndrome
According to the Center for Creative Leadership, 60% of successful professionals will suffer from imposter syndrome at some point in their career.
Embracing Adversity through Resiliency
History is littered with tortured souls who found meaning in failure. Whether a learning disability, job setback, psychological disorder or family loss, they somehow managed to direct their lack of advantage into success. The secret to their achievements? They embraced adversity through resiliency.
White Privilege in the Federal Government
White privilege dominates the federal government. This condition gives White people tremendous advantage in a bureaucracy that rewards connection, uniformity and the status quo. In workplace environments controlled by a homogeneous group of people, confirmation and experience bias take root as members gravitate toward associates who look like them, talk like them and act likeRead… Read more »
I Can’t Get No Satisfaction
It all starts in the workplace. With engagement scores at rock bottom throughout the federal government, it is clear that we are not serving our second line customers who happen to be our colleagues very well. This malaise spills over into our interactions with our first line customers.
How Bias Makes Us Lie
Are we all liars at work?
Environmental Racism in Flint, Michigan
A poor, mostly people of color city that has been exposed to unhealthy levels of lead in their drinking water. Their experience is one of the most colossal failures of government at the local, state and federal levels.
Social Conditioning of Bias
One of the biggest disappointments of my federal career has been my abject failure to improve the engagement numbers of my fellow American Indian/Alaska Native colleagues
Want Inclusion? Change Your Staff Meetings
What have been the individual and organizational costs of not tackling real issues as a result of the perception that people cannot bring their diverse selves to a conversation?