The Most Blasphemous Secret About Experts That’s Hard To Believe
To influence us, experts often cite their research. They use rules based on the scientific method to do it. Yet, it’s easy... Read More
Lessons About Success And Failure From Black Panther Movie
Posted on05 Mar 2018
TagsWall Street Journal, experts, think outside the box, success, rules, passion, motivation, Inspiration (Series), failure, Black Panther movie, Marvel Entertainment
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Many of the most important lessons about success and failure from the movie, Black Panther, aren’t even in the movie. They are... Read More
Most Social Secret About Experts Making Them Political
Posted on09 Oct 2017
TagsSecrets About Experts Series, socializing, Royal Society, experts, politics, group, authority, academic
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The most social secret about experts makes them political animals. That’s because a key way to become an expert is to have... Read More
Most Defensive Truth About Experts Makes Them Dangerous
Posted on28 Aug 2017
TagsSecrets About Experts Series, Kristi Erdal, experts, power, Harvard Business Review, defense mechanism, authority
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Experts are authority figures. While helpful, it also makes them dangerous. For instance, research shows they can talk people out of things... Read More
Most Important Taboo About Experts That They Keep Secret
Posted on10 Jul 2017
Tagsauthority, confession, Influence, subjective, uncertainty, experts, emotional triggers, expert witnesses, Secrets About Experts Series
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The most important taboo about experts is that determining them is subjective. No objective standards exist. Keeping this secret protects and extends... Read More
4 Leadership Lessons from Donald Trump Phenomenon
Posted on17 Aug 2015
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Donald Trump is a leader. Like it or not. He challenges politics. He challenges leadership too. What does the Donald Trump phenomenon... Read More
Leadership, The Secret (Pt 7): Experts, Research & Beauty Contests
Leadership’s subjectivity and its unproven scientific status tempts us to rely heavily upon experts and their research to tell us what good... Read More
Three Key Emotional Triggers (Pt 5): Emotional Recognition
Posted on23 Jan 2014
Tagsbeauty, behavior, control, emotions, Influence, Personality, quality, Talent, Thoughts, experts, emotional triggers, Three Key Emotional Triggers Series, uniqueness, emotional recognition, mastery, expertise, triumph
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Emotional recognition is the third key emotional trigger, and uniqueness is the nickname I ascribe to it. From the aspects of behavior,... Read More
Objective Value, Experts as Masters of Illusions
Posted on11 Nov 2013
Tagsanchoring, assumptions, attractiveness, Dark Side, men, objective, price, scientific, subliminity, The Economist, women, experts, Bloomberg Businessweek, Sokal Moment, Joshua Brustein, leadership dark side, value, value judgments, scientific papers
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Often, when unsure about value, we defer to experts. Experts are often leaders, so they bring leadership’s dark side with them: followers... 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
