Leadership, The Secret (Pt 4): Leadership Riddle
Posted on23 Dec 2013
Tagschange, formal organizational power, informal organizational power, leadership, Performance, Personality, problem solving, relationships, rewards, Leadership - The Secret Series, inspiration, power in personality, leadership riddle, analogy collection, Soup Stock – Problem Solving Analogy
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Leadership has many definitions. It brings to mind the attempts to define such things as love and beauty. Sometimes, when trying to... Read More
Leadership, The Secret (Pt 2): Training Implications
Posted on18 Nov 2013
Tagschange, competition, organizational culture, inertia, innovation, leadership, military, Personality, process, Real-time personality assessment, relationships, strategy, training, vision, internal communications, Leadership - The Secret Series, precedence, bureaucratization, self-help, military-leadership analogy, analogy collection
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Since leadership’s secret is centered on the hearts and minds of groups’ members, how does it reflect in training? Simply, training centers... Read More
Vanilla Words, Vanilla People, Succumbing CEO’s
Posted on07 Nov 2013
TagsCEO, character, miscommunication, original, Personality, power, relationships, vanilla words, Bloomberg Businessweek, Spice-Originality Analogy, clichés, anonymous, Forbes, Wealth Management Marketing Blog, Megan Elliott, Noah Buhayar, Victor Lipman, Vanilla Words-Thinking Series, analogy collection
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Just as our selection of cars, décor and clothing say something about our personalities so do our selection of words. Vanilla people... Read More
Vanilla Words and Uncreative Personalities, Cultures
Just as music can set the tone, so can words. Just as music can help you assess personalities, words too. In business,... Read More
Gold Mining Analogy: Creativity & Persistence = One in a Million
Posted on01 Nov 2012
Tagsbusiness, creativity acorns analogy, analogy collection, Peru, Guernica, Gold Mining Analogy, trial and error, The Economist, Picasso, creativity
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I always knew you had to sift through a lot of rock to find gold, but I never knew how much. According... Read More
People Eat Escargot, Not Snails
Posted on05 Apr 2012
Tagsconnotations, behavioral economics, decisions, emotions, food, phraseology, problem solving, rational actor theory, Roget's Thesaurus, taste, The Economist, word choice, words, analogy collection
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The research behind behavioral economics is full of emotional solutions to everyday problems. By tapping into the emotional biases behind our decisions,... Read More
Problem-solving Technique: Attack Definitions
Posted on02 Dec 2010
Tagsfocus, analogy collection, Castle Wall - Definition Analogy, visualize, vagueness, problem solving, perception, objectivity, intuition, definitions, confusion, castle
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Writing down the problem was a problem-solving technique I discussed in a previous post. Attacking definitions is another that complements this one.... Read More
