The Myth Behind Empowering Employees In The Workplace
Posted on29 Jan 2018
Tagsdecisions, employees, failure, fear, motivation, Talent, engagement, culture change management, empowerment, Gallup News
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Empowering employees in the workplace has been a buzz topic for a couple decades now. Yet, employee engagement remains low, less than... Read More
Challenging Assumptions Exercises
Assumptions box us in. We like them though because they make our communications simpler. For instance, I am writing assuming you can... Read More
Economics, Illogical or Irrational?
Once upon a time, long, long ago, a successful retail executive confided that in college she didn’t do well in economics. She... Read More
Attack Statistics, Solve Problems
Posted on15 Aug 2013
Tagsarbitrariness, assumptions, definitions, intangibles, measure, numbers, perspective, problem solving, questioning techniques, statistics, tangibles, The Economist, Glass-Sand-Water Analogy
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If you don’t like the rules, change them. The article, “Boundary Problems” [The Economist, August 3, 2013 edition], reports that the United... Read More
Natural Mistake of Grouping
Posted on15 Apr 2013
Tagscomplexity, group, illusion, knowledge, people's differences, Personality, problem solving, Talent, unique, individual, Fast Food Knowledge Analogy, simplification
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Look at the figure to the right. The top is a multicolored square, the bottom a gray one. Yet, only one single... Read More
Stories as Inhibitors of Change, Innovation
Posted on11 Mar 2013
Tagsadaptability, change, change management, dissent, facts, history, ideas, Influence, innovation, Northwestern University, opinions, question, rationale, storytelling, The New Yorker, thinking process, think outside the box, George Packer, Dan McAdams
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Stories galvanize people, helping them to learn, to coalesce around ideas. If we look at this galvanization as solidification, we can also... Read More
Difficulty: Better Retention, Deeper Understanding
Posted on31 Jan 2013
Tagsmuscle analogy, Blue Oyster Cult, KISS Principle, training, Thoughts, power, listen, learn, knowledge, Intelligent Life, Ian Leslie, health
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Lifting light weights with little effort doesn’t develop our muscles; lifting heavy weights with difficulty does. However, for some reason we believe... Read More
Wildfires, Computer Models and Sophisticated GIGO
Posted on03 Jan 2013
Tagsquantify, Influence, history, experience, confession, computers, computer simulations, anchoring, The Atlantic, wildfires, Michael Behar, Velten Mood Induction Procedure
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Early on, I learned about GIGO, Garbage In Garbage Out. Translated, if you don’t input good data into the computer don’t expect... Read More
Creative Innovation (Pt 13): Overcoming Biases
One of the points Giovanni Gavetti makes in “The New Psychology of Strategic Leadership” (Harvard Business Review, July-August 2011 edition) about associative... Read More
Cruise Ship Analogy: Quantification as an Illness
Posted on09 Aug 2012
Tagsanalogy, assumptions, attraction, Cruise Ship Analogy, decision-making process, decisions, intuition, numbers, quantify, quantnik
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Imagine preparing to board a cruise ship, and a Quantnik stops you. He asks, “What is your suitcase’s volume?” You are puzzled... Read More