Leadership Insights From Apple’s Jobs To Cook Transition
Posted on24 Aug 2020
TagsApple (company), Wall Street Journal, Tim Cook, Jeff Immelt, Steve Jobs, adaptability, conditionality, Jack Welch, leadership
Comments0
When Steve Jobs died, markets worried that Apple’s best days were behind it. Yet, the transition to Tim Cook proved this wrong.... Read More
History Ranking And Yanking The Jack Welch Legacy
Posted on27 Jul 2020
Comments0
History changes how we see things. No, this is not about the stuff in history books. This is about the history born... Read More
Power of Context on Intoxication
Posted on22 Jul 2013
Tagsbody, positioning, pigeonholing, Personality, objective, management, Influence, emotions, context, conditionality, change management, psychology, intoxication, alcohol, Texas Tech University, Andrew Goudie, Alice Young, McMaster University, Shepard Siegal, Pavlovian conditioning, University of Liverpool
Comments0
Context dramatically influences us. As the article, “Various Ways You Might Accidentally Get Drunk” (The Atlantic, May 2013 edition) by James Hamblin,... Read More
Luck’s Effect on Experts’ Predictions
One of the outside factors that tend to cause us to make the fundamental attribution error in assessing talent is randomness .... Read More
Leadership as a Dependent of Conditions
Posted on23 May 2013
TagsJ.C. Penney, Target Corporation, fundamental attribution error, Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, Nitin Nohria, Warren Buffett, Ron Johnson, Boris Groysberg, certainty, conditionality, control, Harvard Business Review, James Surowiecki, leadership, security, success, Talent, The New Yorker, training
Comments0
If we awoke one day with amnesia with life totally scrambled, would we have the same leaders? In his article, “The Turnaround... Read More
Your Brain, the Final Frontier
Posted on08 Apr 2013
TagsManagement by objective, conditionality, context, emotions, free will, genetic code, humans, knowledge, management, brain, rational actor theory, Star Trek, technology, The Economist, Brain Mapping Analogy, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Human Genome Project, biology, behavioral economics
Comments0
“Space, the final frontier” introduced Star Trek’s original series, but assessments of our human knowledge indicate that the space between our ears... Read More
Extroverted vs. Introverted Leaders – The Important Point
American business culture tends to prize extroverted traits over introverted ones. One online survey of 1,500 senior business leaders found that 65%... Read More
YinYang as Problem-solving Methodology
Posted on09 Feb 2012
Tagsarbitrariness, best practices, change, conditionality, differentiation, flexibility, focus, glass, investment, negative reinforcement, positive reinforcement, problem solving, process, profitability, resistance to change, situational awareness, symbolism, Taijitu, YinYang
Comments0
YinYang, as expressed by the Taijitu symbol, has helped me solve many problems. The two major components represent the two major opposing... Read More
Blank Slates No More
Part of what makes intuition so powerful is the assumption that we are born with personalities, talents and knowledge. Life then becomes... Read More
Downside of Focus and Rise of Situational Awareness
Posted on06 Oct 2011
Tagsanchoring, aptitude, Before You Make That Big Decision, business, business planning, conditionality, context, decisions, focus, Influence, market research, optimism, pigeonholing, planning, situational awareness, skills, Talent
Comments1
Classical business literature emphasizes focus: set goals, plan, and then focus on execution. However, it’s relatively void of focus’ downside: obliviousness to... Read More
