Punishment’s Purifying Effect in the Workplace
While many won’t go through the mental moral gymnastics and anguish of Rodion Raskolnikov, Dostoyevsky’s protagonist in Crime and Punishment, for their... Read More
How Psychopaths Become CEO’s (Pt 3) – Preferred Trends
Posted on12 Aug 2013
TagsPsychopath in Workplace Series, relationships, resistance to change, rules, Stalin, Anatomy of an Event, flow, psychopaths, Lenin, Trotsky, Russian Revolution, fiscal discipline, operational discipline, change, competition, discipline, economics, emotions, event, power, procedure, process
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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
Nurturing Positive Feelings Dramatically Improves Employee Performance
Posted on30 May 2011
Tagscompliments, confidence, discipline, emotions, employees, Harvard Business Review, Lysann Damisch, Maverick, movies, nurture, Performance, Placebo Management Series, positive, Psychological Science, psychology, supersititions, Tom Cruise, Top Gun, University of Cologne
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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
A Blue Heron Instructs on Patience
Posted on25 Oct 2010
Tagsdiscipline, wife, temptation, river, reorganization, real estate, problem solving, prejudice, positioning, patience, location, intuition, fish, ego, Cuyahoga River, organizational culture, business, blue heron, approaches, action
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We live in an activist business culture, meaning we are biased toward action to solve problems. For instance, reorganizations often occur simply... Read More
