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MYPRISM
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MYPRISM

Override Your Autopilot, Choose Mindful Leadership

Maribel Aleman, Douglas Choo, John Lazar, Beth Masterman, Fernando Morais and Rolf Pfeiffer
Ideas for Leaders Publishing, 2023

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Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Analytical
  • Applicable
  • Well Structured

Recommendation

The COVID-19 pandemic proved to be a true black swan event. No one saw it coming and initially, no one knew what to do about it. It devastated the globe, shut down economic activity, and caused the deaths of more than seven million people worldwide. MYPRISM’s six authors –  Maribel Aleman, Douglas Choo, John Lazar, Beth Masterman, Fernando Morais, and Rolf Pfeiffer, all Fellows of the Institute of Coaching (IOC) at McLean, a Harvard Medical School Affiliate – banded together during the lockdown to develop MYPRISM, a new approach to solving problems. The authors explain how the system works and how you can apply it to attack a problem the way a prism treats light: by breaking it into its component parts and addressing them methodically.

Take-Aways

  • Generating strategies to address novel problems requires fresh thinking.  
  • COVID-19 inspired a conceptual approach to problem-solving.
  • The MYPRISM method solves a problem the way a prism handles light: by dividing it into its component parts. 

About the Authors

The authors are Fellows of the Institute of Coaching at McLean, a Harvard Medical School affiliate. Maribel Aleman is an executive coach at Aleman & Associates. Douglas Choo is a managing partner at VIEW Advisors. The late John Lazar was an executive coach at John B. Lazar Associates. Beth Masterman is an executive coach at Masterman Executive Coaching. Fernando Morais is managing partner at FMORAIS Associados. Rolf Pfeiffer is a managing partner at Schwarz & Pfeiffer Executive Advisory Partners. 

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