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My 400th Post: Thank You for Your Growth and Endorsements

Posted on10 Mar 2014

Tagsappreciation, bloggers, social media, Thank You, Twitter, inspiration, Thank You Series

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My 400th post arrives with much amazement, awe and appreciation for those who visit my blog, encourage me and publicly endorse both. As many of...

Leverage Relationships in Conversations, A Technique (Pt 2)

Posted on06 Mar 2014

Tagsintrinsic, Tips Leveraging Relationships in Communications Series, personalization, relationships, conversation techniques, compliments, appreciation

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When we leverage relationships in conversations. There are two aspects. There is the bonding of the conversation to the receiver through personalization and compliments and...

Leadership, The Secret (Pt 8): Top Rule Violator

Posted on03 Mar 2014

Tagsbody, hubris, leadership, power, rules, Stanford Prison Experiment, The Economist, emotional triggers, leadership dark side, Leadership - The Secret Series, hubris-body analogy, analogy collection

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We often have idealized visions of leaders and leadership, treating them as universal goods where only bad people can make them bad. If we’re not...

Relating To Powerful People, The Gender Difference

Posted on27 Feb 2014

TagsNoah Goldstein, Harvard Business Review, men, objectivity, optimism, perception, power, risk, security, women, New York University, emotional triggers, gender differences, University of California Los Angeles, Nicholas Hays, illusory power transference

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Despite laws and education to the contrary, generally speaking, men and women bring different talents to the workplace. They bring different biases and views too....

Leverage Relationships in Conversations, A Technique (Pt 1)

Posted on24 Feb 2014

TagsTips Leveraging Relationships in Communications Series, compliments, using names, senior manager, relationships, relationship building techniques, message, management, leadership, intrinsic, executive, conversation techniques

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This post follows up the previous one in this series regarding the leveraging of compliments in conversations. There, the focus was on the person whom...

Introverts More Honest?

Posted on20 Feb 2014

Tagsorganizational culture, assessments, cooperation, employees, extrovert, honesty, innovation, introvert, leadership, motivation, Personality, reflection, The Economist, lead by example

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The idea that introverts are more honest than extroverts comes from two assertions. First, studies find that “the more reflective [people] are, the more honest...

Secret to Creativity

Posted on17 Feb 2014

Tagscreativity, Picasso, repetition, trial and error, Guernica, Bloomberg Businessweek, Charlie Rose, Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft, Apple (company), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Portrait of Sylvette David

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One of the books that had the greatest impact on my life was Picasso 1881 – 1973 by Carsten-Peter Warncke, Ingo F. Walther. It changed...

Leadership, The Secret (Pt 7): Experts, Research & Beauty Contests

Posted on13 Feb 2014

Tagsbeauty, definitions, interpretation, irrational, leadership, quantify, research methodologies, Scientific Method, subjective, experts, Leadership - The Secret Series, psychiatric disorders, expert witnesses, courts

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Leadership’s subjectivity and its unproven scientific status tempts us to rely heavily upon experts and their research to tell us what good leadership is. We...

Emotional Self-defense for Sensitive People (Pt 9): Oak & Apple Trees

The difference between oak and apple trees fascinates me. Oak trees produce many acorns surviving squirrels and insects; however, few apples of wild trees survive....

Leveraging Compliments in Conversations, A Technique

Posted on06 Feb 2014

Tagsintrinsic, analogy collection, Customized Clothing Analogy, Monogramming Analogy, Tips Leveraging Relationships in Communications Series, personalization, knowledge, innate, good job, extrinsic, conversation techniques, compliments

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This post follows up mine on personalization. It illustrates a basic conversational technique leveraging the relationships we’ve developed to generate cooperative action. It does this...

Leadership, The Secret (Pt 6): Scientifically Unproven

Posted on03 Feb 2014

Tagsdefinitions, emotions, leadership, prove, quality, Scientific Method, subjective, uncertainty, Leadership - The Secret Series

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A professor and I were discussing the effect of goals on employee performance. He was commenting that research shows they raise performance until people believe...

Promoting Honesty to Those Not Valuing It

Posted on30 Jan 2014

Tagsmanagement by email, time vs money, word choice, time, Thank You, pressure, patience, money, honesty, face-to-face interactions, email, organizational culture, compliments

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A Twitter connection posed this question in response to my post “Lying About Honesty.” It dealt with promoting honesty in the workplace: What arguments can...

Honest Time, Dishonest Money

Posted on27 Jan 2014

Tagspositioning, organizational culture, honesty, incentives, Influence, leadership, management, money, motivation, phraseology, The Economist, time, word choice, Cassie Mogilner, time vs money, commissions, banking

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Dozens of studies have indeed shown that people primed to think about money before an experiment are more likely to lie, cheat and steal during...

Three Key Emotional Triggers (Pt 5): Emotional Recognition

Posted on23 Jan 2014

Tagsbehavior, experts, Thoughts, Talent, quality, Personality, Influence, emotions, control, emotional triggers, beauty, emotional recognition, triumph, expertise, mastery, uniqueness, Three Key Emotional Triggers Series

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Emotional recognition is the third key emotional trigger, and uniqueness is the nickname I ascribe to it. From the aspects of behavior, thought and emotion,...

The Secret Hiring Indicator

Posted on20 Jan 2014

Tagsjob seeking, employment, interviewing, Lauren Rivera, Don Peck, hiring, The Atlantic, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, organizational culture

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As algorithms, technology and sensors advance, we are discovering that hiring for fit rather than for talent runs further, deeper and more definable than we...

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Leverage Relationships in Conversations, A Technique (Pt 2)

Leadership, The Secret (Pt 8): Top Rule Violator

Relating To Powerful People, The Gender Difference

Leverage Relationships in Conversations, A Technique (Pt 1)

Introverts More Honest?

Secret to Creativity

Leadership, The Secret (Pt 7): Experts, Research & Beauty Contests

Emotional Self-defense for Sensitive People (Pt 9): Oak & Apple Trees

Leveraging Compliments in Conversations, A Technique

Leadership, The Secret (Pt 6): Scientifically Unproven

Promoting Honesty to Those Not Valuing It

Honest Time, Dishonest Money

Three Key Emotional Triggers (Pt 5): Emotional Recognition

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