Leadership’s Dark Side
Posted on25 Jul 2011
Tagscompetence, confidence, facts, goal setting, Iain Couzin, Jens Krause, John Seabrook, leadership, Leeds University, Princeton University, The New Yorker
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If you research leadership, you’ll find virtually all leadership models promoting the concept as something approaching divinity. What we don’t address is... Read More
Emotional Self-defense for Sensitive People (Pt 1): Awareness
Posted on02 Jun 2011
Tagsaction, confidence, conscious, Emotional Self Defense Series, emotions, feelings, sensitivity, subconscious, Thoughts
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Periodically, I help sensitive people so I have special life management techniques set aside for them. A recent success has encouraged me... Read More
Nurturing Positive Feelings Dramatically Improves Employee Performance
Posted on30 May 2011
Tagsnurture, University of Cologne, Top Gun, Tom Cruise, supersititions, psychology, Psychological Science, positive, Placebo Management Series, Performance, movies, Maverick, Lysann Damisch, Harvard Business Review, employees, emotions, discipline, confidence, compliments
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Nurturing positive feelings inside employees improves their performance. I read two articles that support this. One deals with the positive feelings from... Read More
Is Confidence an Indicator of Incompetence?
Posted on15 Nov 2010
TagsDavid Dunning, attraction, Betrand Russell, CEO, competence, confidence, Dunning-Kruger Effect, Justin Kruger, lies, measure, military, security, The Triumph of Stupidity
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“In the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” –Bertrand Russell, from his essay ‘The Triumph... Read More
Play Politics or Risk Your Job
Posted on04 Nov 2010
TagsPerformance, co-workers, confidence, drive, feelings, good job, interpersonal, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Job, Paths to Power, boss, politics, power, rationale, relationships, risk, Schumpeter, The Economist, The Will to Power, bank
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Once, a woman who had just joined a bank wanted to meet with me since I had experience working at a bank.... Read More
5 Unconscious Tells of Lying By Bosses, Coworkers and Others
Posted on06 Sep 2010
TagsAnastasia Zakolyukina, belief, confidence, David Larcker, honesty, knowledge, lies, Stanford Graduate School of Business, The Economist, words, positivity
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Lies are very hard to catch even for experts. Part of this is because we overlook lying for many socially acceptable and... Read More
