Top Seven Sun Tzu Quotes: #3 Positioning
Posted on08 Jul 2013
Tagsexpectations, business, business planning, compensation, control, Influence, planning, positioning, real estate, relationships, training, warfare, Sun Tzu, The Art of War, Sun Tzu Top 7 Quotes Series, face time
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At number three in my list of top seven Sun Tzu quotes from The Art of War, I have: Thus a victorious... 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
Top Seven Sun Tzu Quotes: #4 Change
Posted on20 Jun 2013
Tagschange, control, hubris, Influence, negative thinking, risk, success, Talent, Sun Tzu, The Art of War, Sun Tzu Top 7 Quotes Series, cyclical change model, fundamental attribution error, five elements
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At number four in my list of top seven Sun Tzu quotes from The Art of War, I have: Of the five... Read More
Leadership as a Dependent of Conditions
Posted on23 May 2013
TagsClaudio Fernández-Aráoz, Nitin Nohria, Warren Buffett, fundamental attribution error, conditionality, Boris Groysberg, certainty, control, Harvard Business Review, James Surowiecki, leadership, security, success, Talent, The New Yorker, training, Ron Johnson, J.C. Penney, Target Corporation
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If we awoke one day with amnesia with life totally scrambled, would we have the same leaders? In his article, “The Turnaround... Read More
Identifying Psychopaths in the Workplace
Posted on06 May 2013
Tagspower, Psychopath in Workplace Series, The Bad Sleep Well, rules, relationships, psychopaths, procedure, policies, Personality, objectivity, emotions, control
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Psychopaths work to amass their power. Emotions are not in the equation. They are immune to those of others, including their own.... Read More
Predictability as Hell: A Problem-solving Perspective
Posted on10 Jan 2013
Tagsproblem solving, hell, heaven, The Twilight Zone, Walter Kirn, predictability, Predictability as Hell Analogy, The Atlantic, standardization, perspective, Influence, emotions, control, assessments
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Businesses strive for predictability. Standardization helps them achieve that. Still, many employees like their jobs for their variability, “It’s something different every... 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
Relationship Building Technique #2: Closed Questions
We often don’t learn the value of listening techniques in building relationships. Consequently, people might not realize we are listening; this needs... Read More
Relationship Building Technique #1: Open-ended Questions
When learning listening techniques, we often don’t learn their value in building relationships. As a result, we might be listening, but the... Read More
Difference Between Instinct and Intuition in Decisions
Often, I’m asked about the difference between instinct and intuition. Part of what makes the question hard is gender bias. Men prefer... Read More
