Stuck

Preface

This is a book about the brain, the human experience, and how our life experiences shape our behavior at work. It’s easy to say that we can divide work and life into two neat camps, but we come to work with the same brain we use in the rest of our lives. Our brain is formed by memory, emotion, and learning into a powerful force that makes us who we are as people. It helps us create powerful solutions for problem-solving and makes us resist even the simplest changes. This is when we get Stuck. When life’s evolution makes it hard for us to move forward even though every rational piece of data says, “Just move on.”

This book is a journey to understand why we get Stuck and how leaders and organizations can use research to guide themselves, ...