Cy Wakeman: (You - Drama) = Positive Culture Change
Our guest today is Cy Wakeman. Cy is a drama researcher, global thought-leader, and New York Times best-selling author who is recognized for cultivating a counter-intuitive, reality-based approach to leadership. Backed by 20 years of unparalleled experience, Cy’s philosophy offers a new lens through which employees and executives alike, can shift their attention inward, sharpen their focus on personal accountability, and uncover their natural state of resourcefulness simply by ditching the drama. Cy and I had a wide-ranging conversation exploring what can happen when we ditch drama, take accountability and stop blaming culture and our environment for why we can’t do things. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed interviewing Cy. Episode Highlights In this interview, Cy and I discuss: Cy’s early cultural influences The influence of Rumi’s poetry on Cy’s personal philosophy and her work Changing our experience by changing the lens we view the world through How Cy defines drama and what the effects of drama in the workplace are The dangers of believing everything that we think The magic of editing the stories that we are telling ourselves down to undeniable facts What a portable culture is and how to we can experiment with an idea that we can co-create culture by bringing what’s missing into it Three top competencies we need to thrive in the times of constant and exponential change Why Cy believes that it might be a good idea to ditch leadership books for a while and start exploring the work of great spiritual teachers instead The importance of language and self-reflection in cultivating a healthy culture