Problematic Personality Types in Meetings
Posted on25 Sep 2014
Tagsanchoring, confidence, extrovert, Harvard Business Review, management, motivation, Performance, Personality, team building, time, Pennsylvania State University, meetings, UX Magazine, Jay Eskenazi, Bryan Bonner, University of Utah, Alexander Bolinger, alpha personalities
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Meetings are one of the big three time wasters in the workplace. One reason, they easily get off track. Agendas help but... Read More
Apocalyptic Decision Making – Dealing with Volatility
Posted on18 Sep 2014
TagsApocalyptic Decision Making Series, G. James Lemoine, Nathan Bennett, VUCA, volatility, big data, comfort, Statistical Analysis, planning, history, Harvard Business Review, event, decisions
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Nathan Bennett and G. James Lemoine (“What VUCA Really Means for You” [Harvard Business Review, January 2014 edition]) superficially introduced the four... Read More
The “Big Three” Time Wasters in Business
Posted on28 Aug 2014
Tagsefficiencies, email, Harvard Business Review, management, McKinsey & Company, technology, The Economist, time, Bloomberg Businessweek, meetings, Bain & Company, documentation
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The big three time wasters in business are emails, meetings and white tape, companies’ internal bureaucracies. All three aren’t new to most;... Read More
The Four Horsemen of Apocalyptic Decision Making
Posted on25 Aug 2014
Tagsurgency, silver bullet, emotional triggers, Why Problems Occur Series, volatility, uncertainty, rationale, quantify, Harvard Business Review, definitions, complexity, certainty, Apocalyptic Decision Making Series, Four Horsemen, G. James Lemoine, Nathan Bennett, VUCA, ambiguity
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The four horsemen of apocalyptic decision making are Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity or VUCA for short. Just as customers do when... Read More
Personality Types That Share Ads
Posted on11 Aug 2014
Tagssocial media, viral ads, egocentricity, target marketing, Thales Teixeira, big data, peer-to-peer marketing, status, Personality, marketing, LinkedIn, Harvard Business Review, extrovert, advertising
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I had asked a LinkedIn guru whether he knew of a way to filter profiles based on personality types. He replied, “No.”... Read More
The Untold Secret of Best Practices
Processes trigger our emotions for security, for certainty. All too often processes become the end, not outcomes. Providers of all kinds, from... Read More
Breaking through Consensus
Consensus retards dynamic solutions. For example, Regina Dugan and Kaigham Gabriel write in “‘Special Forces’ Innovation: How DARPA* Attacks Problems” (Harvard Business... Read More
Rehab for Social Media, Email, Texts (SMET) Addiction
In response to my post highlighting SMET addictions, Maya Larson (@connectionsbym), an Etsy shopkeeper, asked, “Is there a 5-step (rehab) program” for... Read More
Peer-to-peer Marketing Overrated?
Posted on13 Mar 2014
Tagspeer-to-peer marketing, demographics, homophily, Sinan Aral, social media, relationships, marketing, Influence, Harvard Business Review, friends, decisions, buying habits
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Yes, peer-to-peer marketing (P2P) is overrated but still important as long as we understand what what we are buying: just another channel... Read More
Relating To Powerful People, The Gender Difference
Despite laws and education to the contrary, generally speaking, men and women bring different talents to the workplace. They bring different biases... Read More
