Some aspects of organizational development focus on stress causes, morale deflators, creativity, and team building. Or, yet another slant is the importance of our ability to deal with all of these topics and of course the brain’s ability to learn or not, about these.Dr. John Medina on “multitasking” – “Ya can’t do it!”
Let’s consider some resources on Youtube to look at this. Author of Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina is in an interesting video of his appearance at the Google organization. He discusses how learned helplessness grows from being continually exposed to stress and how environmental stress in the workplace is something successful businesses and organizations are learning to deal with to improve performance. He uses examples of how the typical office cubicles, rigid structural conforming rules, wreck creativity and doom any chance for outstanding performance. He uses examples of marriage research by Martin Seligman that indicates emotional instability during marriage ruins many a child’s chances for outstanding development and success and also predicts divorce. Medina goes on to tie these bodies of research together to explain how our brain works and that, absent undue continual harsh stress, there is usually room to improve brain functioning with exercise and by developing non-sedentary ways of living.
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