Project Management is not for Wimps: Developing Your Courage to Lead through Neuro-Axiology

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Developing Your Courage to Lead through Neuro‐Axiology


‐ Winston Churchill




What is it?

Where does it come from?

How can you get MORE?


The ability and willingness to confront fear, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation

State or quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face danger or fear with self‐possession, confidence, and resolution

“Cor” and “coraticum” means “heart”

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ‐ C. S. Lewis




Stuttered as a child; sent off to boarding school

Failed entrance exam to military

Shouted down in Legislature and left

Returned and became Prime Minister

Inspired Great Britain to victory in WWII

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

‐Winston Churchill


“The First Penguin Award”

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgmentthat something else is

more important [valuable] than fear.‐ Ambrose Hollingworth Redmoon




How do you create the greatest value?

Understanding the answer to that question requires an understanding of VALUE DYNAMICS


There are natural laws of value dynamicsjust like there are laws of aerodynamics.

Would you get on a plane that looked like this?




To increase your courage you MUST understand VALUE

Axiology is the science of value and value judgments

Hartman Value Profile (HVP)

“What good does it do a person to know all about [the] potential inner strength he has if in practical,

everyday situations he can’t use it?” – Robert S. Hartman


Lowest Dimension Value

Systemic: plans, rules, best practices, procedures; ideas or expectations

1 or 0




Middle Dimension of Value

Extrinsic: practical or situational; measurable, tracked; roles, tasks (tangible)

n


Highest Dimension of Value

Intrinsic: personal or spiritual; infinitely valuable; irreplaceable; human beings (intangibles)

Courage

∞




Dimension Value Example

Intrinsic (1א) ∞ Caring for others

Extrinsic n (0א) Donating to charity

Systemic 1 or 0 Being a [nationality]

Explanation:Care for people first, then donate to charity, then be patriotic.


What is the correct Axiological Order (highest to lowest)?

A) Being Productive

B) Being Right

C) Accepting Others




Dimension Properties Value

Intrinsic (1א) ∞ Accepting Others

Extrinsic n (0א) Being Productive

Systemic 1 or 0 Being Right

Explanation:Human beings are worth more than producing or creating a ‘thing’. Creating is worth more than being right.


What is the correct Axiological Order (highest to lowest)?

A) Your Possessions

B) Personal Goals

C) Loving Yourself




Dimension Properties Value

Intrinsic (1א) ∞ Loving Yourself

Extrinsic n (0א) Possessions

Systemic 1 or 0 Personal Goals

Explanation:YOU are worth more than your things. Your things are worth more than your goals.


Who here values or believes in honesty?

Who here has recently lied, pretended, or been dishonest?




“Value” is an ideal or principle we hold important.

Value can be honesty, integrity, excellence, compassion, quality, etc.


“Valuing habit” is a conditioned reaction based on our conditioned perspectives of what adds value.

“Value Judgment” is how we perceive, analyze, choose and respond.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates

they have made of the value of things.‐ Benjamin Franklin




ReactionsActions

Valuing HabitsValue Judgments

Results

ValuesValues

Mind Brain


The Brain The MindA human organ Not an organ

Physical and tangible Not physical and tangible

Does not distinguish whether the action is beneficial or destructive

Has the ability to consider many options and can weigh short‐term actions against longer‐

term goals.Responds to how you behave and then

generates strong impulses, thoughts, desires, cravings, and urges that compel you to

perpetuate your habit

Can choose at any moment to respond differently than the established habit.

Does not understand your “True Self”Aware of consciousness, the ability to control what we do, and know what we are doing and

why.

Passive Action (does what it has been programmed to do)

Active Action (can take a long‐term, value‐based approach to

action)

Survival and comfort based Value and goal‐oriented




“There’s nothing more important than my family.”

Yet, consumed by your work

“Quality is job #1.”

Yet, won’t hire enough people to adequately staff key projects.


“In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.”




Actions are not always aligned with Core Values & Value Judgments

Actions are usually aligned with Valuing Habits

You can change the Valuing Habits of your BRAIN by using your MIND.

Key: Identifying your GOOD Valuing perspectives


Hartman’s Value Profile (HVP) allows us to quantifiably measure our valuing perspectives. (VQs = Value judgment Quotient)

“Aligned” valuing perspectives support you in being courageous. (VQ‐100’s)

“Mis‐aligned” valuing perspectives sabotage your efforts to be courageous. (low VQs)




This is NOT about personality (MBTI) or behavior (DISC).

It is about understanding how you think in order to be more effective.






Low VQs are limited or narrow perspectives

VQ‐100s are broad perspectives




VQ‐100 comes with Centering Questions

When you ask YOURSELF these questions, you will pull your mind into a broader perspective.

Each of the 36 VQ‐100s have their own specific Centering Questions


IF your VQ‐100 is “Valuing Yourself”:

What do I know about my ability to grow and to become better?

Does this choice or situation support who I aspire to be?

How can I use my past experiences to bring greater value at this moment?




Mind Brain

ReactionsActions


Results

ValuesValues


Conform to the hierarchy of value and you will KNOW that you are adding value.

Attempt to violate the hierarchy of value and you will be unsure.

With uncertainty, there can be no courage!

Learning to be SURE...

Courage




“Win” = systemic

“Succeed” = extrinsic

“True” = intrinsic

“The light that I have” = intrinsic

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by

the light that I have.”– Abraham Lincoln


Learn the Natural Laws of Creating Value

Understand YOUR Valuing Habits

SHIFT to your VQ‐100s (strengths)

Take action from your strengths

Develop Courageous, Value‐Centered Habits




consistently ask and accurately answerThe Central Question:

What choice can I make

or action can I take,

in this moment,

to add the greatest net value?


Mind BrainHonesty

EfficiencyCompassion

Trust

VirtuesVirtues

HonestEfficient

CompassionateTrustworthy

What You Believe WHO YOU BECOME

ReactionsActions


Results

ValuesValues




1. Courage starts with understanding the principles of VALUE DYNAMICS!

2. You have the power to SHIFT to your STRENGTHS.

3. Creating NEW valuing habits requires PRACTICE.

4. Become more aligned with your VALUES and your COURAGE & CONFIDENCE will increase.

“Try not to become a man [or woman] of success but rather try to become a man [or woman] of value.”

– Albert Einstein


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Project Management is not for Wimps: Developing Your Courage to Lead through Neuro-Axiology