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Excessive Collaboration, “Let Me Do My Job!”

Posted on23 Jun 2014

Tagscollaboration, decision-making process, Duke Corporation Education, Jake Breeden, Morten Hansen, University of California Berkeley, The Economist, productivity, innovation

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At the outset, great ideas succeed because there is adherence to their fundamental concepts, processes and techniques. Over time though, commercial pressures take hold. More...

Leadership’s Influence on Goal Setting

Posted on19 Jun 2014

Tagsinterpersonal, affect, Priyesh Patel, emotional triggers, relationships, leadership, Influence, goal setting, context, confidence, change

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Leadership’s influence on goal setting results in people believing and achieving more than they would with mediocre management. It’s where leadership’s affective essence meets reality...

Strategic Complimenting vs. Spontaneity

Posted on16 Jun 2014

Tagscompliments, confidence, follow up, Influence, management, management by walking around, Performance, relationship building techniques, spontaneous, Talent, Twitter, Strategic Complimenting Series

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Other posts in series: Strategic ComplimentingStrategically Using Compliments in Relationship Building Strategic Complimenting (Pt 2): Six Expectations Inadequacies of the Generic “Good Job” Compliment Complimenting...

Secret to Creativity (Pt 2): Innovative Process and Taco Bell

Posted on12 Jun 2014

Tagsnegative, conflict, creativity, diversity, failure, fear, innovation, negative thinking, trial and error, Gold Mining Analogy, Bloomberg Businessweek, Secret to Creativity, Venessa Wong, Taco Bell, waffle taco, venture firms

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A venture firm presented their search process. It began with examining about a 1,000 companies. Of those, they analyzed business plans from about 300. Only...

Danger of Humbleness

Posted on09 Jun 2014

Tagsanalogy collection, Sun Doesn't Know Analogy, Michelle Held, clarity, lying, perspective, Talent, truth, Twitter, humbleness

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Michelle Held (Twitter), an entrepreneur who helps businesses develop corporate pro-social presences and mentors nonprofit start-ups, prompted this post. She requested elaboration on how people...

Perfectionism, Overcoming the Perfect Problem

Posted on05 Jun 2014

Tagstrial and error, perfectionism, conscientiousness personality trait, Five Factor Model, Claire Shipman, Katty Kay, Farah Mash, gender differences, Twitter, training, The Atlantic, rationale, mistakes, learn, confidence, aggressive

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Perfectionism can be problematical, often preventing completion of projects as Farah Mash attests to in a tweet regarding Creators vs. Pruners: Personality Typing. As Katty...

At Disney, Scheduler or Extemporizer?

Posted on02 Jun 2014

Tagsfreedom-order duality, Bloomberg Businessweek, TED Talks, public speaking, Christopher Palmeri, Disney, big data

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Christopher Palmeri reports in “Disney Bets $1 Billion on Technology to Track Theme-Park Visitors” (BloombergBusinessweek, March 7, 2014) that Disney is leveraging big data to...

Breaking through Consensus

Posted on29 May 2014

Tagsproblem solving, homogeneity, Kaigham Gabriel, Regina Dugan, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), consensus, emotional triggers, innovation, Harvard Business Review, dissent, decision-making process, creativity, conflict

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Consensus retards dynamic solutions. For example, Regina Dugan and Kaigham Gabriel write in “‘Special Forces’ Innovation: How DARPA* Attacks Problems” (Harvard Business Review, October 2013...

Cost of Feeling Busy about Our Business

Posted on26 May 2014

Tagsbusiness, effectiveness, feelings, productivity, profitability, rationale, self-interest, subconscious, bees

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A friend once pointed out that business is derived from the work “busy,” not from words such as “produce” or “profit.”. Since business is not...

Naturally Using Strengths to Overwhelm Weaknesses

Posted on22 May 2014

Tagsblitzkrieg, Talent, training, trees, World War II, growth, StrengthsFinders 2.0, Tom Rath, analogy collection, Tree - Development Analogy

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One morning I joined a sales person on her sales calls. At lunch, she asked what I thought. I told her. She paused and then...

Personification’s Importance: Stephen Curry and NBA

Posted on19 May 2014

Tagspersonification, Bloomberg Businessweek, emotional recognition, National Basketball Association, Stephen Curry, Golden State Warriors, Ira Boudway, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Congress

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Golden State Warriors’ guard, Stephen Curry, is a great case study of the recognized importance of personification, giving something a personality. As reported by Ira...

People Who Feel What Others Are Feeling

Posted on15 May 2014

Tagsbrain, cooperation, organizational culture, emotions, empathy, feelings, Performance, self-interest, sensitive people, team building, team intelligence

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Sensitivity can produce performance challenges. It’s difficult for people to understand this sensitivity when coaching through these challenges. An especially challenging group involves people who...

Planning and Developing Employees’ Confidence

Posted on12 May 2014

Tagscoaching, compliments, confidence, education, employees, intangibles, management, Performance, perspective, Placebo Management Series, planning, skills, Top Gun, training

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Other posts in series: Placebo ManagementNurturing Positive Feelings Dramatically Improves Employee Performance Placebo Management: Impacting Employees’ Beliefs Management Tips From Changing Taste Using Stories Placebo...

Question to Avoid When Resolving Problems

Posted on08 May 2014

Tagsconflict management, creativity, organizational culture, customer service, employees, innovation, management, problem solving, questioning techniques

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Once upon a time long ago, I was helping a department. Asking my questions as to how things got done, employees tended to tell me...

Self-Regulated Psychopath, Implications for Emotional Intelligence (Pt 2)

Posted on05 May 2014

Tagsconflict, organizational culture, Daniel Goleman, diversity, emotional intelligence, emotions, empathy, intelligence, psychopaths, sensitive people

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Other posts in series: Psychopaths in WorkplacePsychopaths, Sociopaths and Differences for the Workplace Identifying Psychopaths in the Workplace How Psychopaths Become CEO’s (Pt 1) –...

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Leadership’s Influence on Goal Setting

Strategic Complimenting vs. Spontaneity

Secret to Creativity (Pt 2): Innovative Process and Taco Bell

Danger of Humbleness

Perfectionism, Overcoming the Perfect Problem

At Disney, Scheduler or Extemporizer?

Breaking through Consensus

Cost of Feeling Busy about Our Business

Naturally Using Strengths to Overwhelm Weaknesses

Personification’s Importance: Stephen Curry and NBA

People Who Feel What Others Are Feeling

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