Are You Scaring Your People into Mediocrity?   All leaders want to outperform, outsell, and outinènovate the competition. And most teams are fully capable of doing so. The problem: we consistently say and do things that spark unconscious fears and keep our people stuck in their Critter State. This primitive fight, flight, or freeze mode distills all decision makèing to one question: What will keep me safest?   Lying low, sucking up, procrastinating, and doing a good enough job may keep employees breathing, but it doesn t make for vital organizations. Leaders have to get their people unstuck and fully engaged, replacing their old, limiting mental patterns with new patterns that foster optimal performance.   New York Times bestselling author and applied neuroscience expert Christine Comaford knows what it takes to move people from the Critter State into the Smart State, where they have full access to their own creativity, innovation, higher consciousness, and emotional engagement. When