Leadership, The Secret (Pt 2): Training Implications
Posted on18 Nov 2013
TagsPersonality, analogy collection, military-leadership analogy, self-help, bureaucratization, precedence, Leadership - The Secret Series, internal communications, vision, training, strategy, relationships, Real-time personality assessment, process, military, leadership, innovation, inertia, organizational culture, competition, change
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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
How Psychopaths Become CEO’s (Pt 3) – Preferred Trends
Posted on12 Aug 2013
Tagschange, competition, discipline, economics, emotions, event, power, procedure, process, psychopaths, relationships, resistance to change, rules, Stalin, Anatomy of an Event, flow, Psychopath in Workplace Series, Lenin, Trotsky, Russian Revolution, fiscal discipline, operational discipline
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Psychopaths often become CEO’s because we ask them to do so. We usually do so unknowingly, but circumstances around events encourage us... Read More
How Psychopaths Become CEO’s (Pt 2) – Situational Preferences
Posted on18 Jul 2013
Tagscompetition, control, executive, formal organizational power, hierarchy, leadership, organization, power, process, psychopaths, rules, situation, Psychopath in Workplace Series
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The introductory post of this mini-series summarized the situations promoting the rise of psychopaths to CEO as: Formal hierarchies, organizations, processes and... Read More
Competition, Success & Testosterone
Posted on10 Dec 2012
Tagscompetition, testosterone, Villanova University, Rutgers, Charlotte Markley, Patrick Markey, The Economist, success, risk, rational actor theory, free will, control, conscious, competitive, Challenge, aggressive
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Many chemical reactions occur in our bodies. This we know, but how they affect our decisions and actions is another matter. The... Read More
Cooperation vs. Competition on the Business-to-Business Level
Posted on23 May 2011
Tagsbusiness, competition, cooperation, free market, freedom, gladiators, law, perspective, profitability, Roman
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A person who direct messaged me on Twitter suggested I address cooperation and competition on the business-to-business level (B2B). Which is more... Read More
Best Service or Best Price: Which Reigns Supreme?
Posted on04 Oct 2010
Tagscompetition, The New Yorker, survey, subjective, status, quality, product, price, premium, market, luxury, James Surowiecki, intuition, emotions, customers, customer service, buying habits, business, branding, assumptions, article, Are You Being Served
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In the article, “Are You Being Served?”, in the September 6, 2010 issue of The New Yorker, the author James Surowiecki cites... Read More
