How maturity impacts your decision-making process at work
In her new book, Jennifer Garvey Berger breaks down how leaders can address anxiety and make good decisions at work.
As adults grow and change over time, their ability to deal with the many pressures of their lives changes in important but subtle ways. Leaders with different levels of developmental maturity (i.e., different “forms of mind”) will have a greater or lesser capacity to take the perspectives of others, to be self-directed, to generate and modify systems, to manage conflicts, and to deal with paradox. We do not have to go very far to find ourselves in the middle of complexity and ambiguity; we face complex, unclear situations over and over each day. Leaders with a more mature form of mind tend to deal with difficult situations with less stress, more wisdom, and more effectiveness. Here is a quick example of one such unexpected dilemma: