Objective Value, Experts as Masters of Illusions
Posted on11 Nov 2013
Tagsanchoring, assumptions, attractiveness, Dark Side, men, objective, price, scientific, subliminity, The Economist, women, experts, Bloomberg Businessweek, Sokal Moment, Joshua Brustein, leadership dark side, value, value judgments, scientific papers
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Often, when unsure about value, we defer to experts. Experts are often leaders, so they bring leadership’s dark side with them: followers... 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
Increasing Value, Power of Stories
Posted on12 Sep 2013
Tagsrestaurant, anthropology, Paul Pax, David Sax, Antiques Roadshow, Graeme Wood, Bloomberg Businessweek, alcohol, values, The Atlantic, storytelling, quantify, power, perception, food, branding
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When you go to your next party in which people bring food, alcohol or other contributions, listen for their stories around how... Read More
Personalities Lurk Behind Twitter Streams
Posted on25 Jul 2013
Tagsmerchandising, advertising, behavioral economics, business, computers, decisions, education, free will, Google, logic, marketing, neoclassical economics, Personality, politics, rational actor theory, relationships, The Economist, Twitter, Bloomberg Businessweek, Joshua Green, Eric Schmidt, Barack Obama, seed planting analogy, personality as software analogy
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Increasingly, we are seeing the connection between all that we do and our personalities. Why is this “groundbreaking?” For centuries now, we’ve... Read More
