Human Lessons from a Bourbon Tornado
Posted on28 Apr 2014
Tagsadaptability, control, humans, learn, objective personality tests, people's differences, standardization, The Atlantic, Wayne Curtis, individual, silver bullet, Buffalo Trace Distillery, bourbon, tornado
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A tornado demolished a Buffalo Trace Distillery’s warehouse miraculously leaving all barrels of aging bourbon undamaged but exposed to the elements for... Read More
Zombies To The Rescue
Posted on07 Apr 2014
Tagstelevision, computers, employees, entertainment, gladiators, humans, music, procedure, process, robots, rules, Talent, venting, Predictability as Hell Analogy, predictability, complacency, software, smart phones, zombies, workflows, Romans, Great Depression, Shirley Temple
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Entertainment often reflects our lives. Sometimes depicting it directly but other times serving to assuage emotions that don’t have an outlet. Just... Read More
Your Brain, the Final Frontier
Posted on08 Apr 2013
TagsHuman Genome Project, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Brain Mapping Analogy, The Economist, technology, Star Trek, brain, rational actor theory, Management by objective, management, knowledge, humans, genetic code, free will, emotions, context, conditionality, biology, behavioral economics
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“Space, the final frontier” introduced Star Trek’s original series, but assessments of our human knowledge indicate that the space between our ears... Read More
Our Personalities: Crashing Others’ Expectations
As computers and robots are able to perform more of the mental and physical tasks of humans, we are finding they can... Read More
Leadership is an Affect
Posted on19 Jan 2012
Tagsbaseball, change, change management, chess, emotions, feelings, group, humanistic, humans, leadership, movies, Pied Piper, plays, process, relationships
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One can read endlessly about leadership. However, if plays play on a stage, if baseball plays on a diamond, movies on a... Read More
Cooperation vs. Self-interest (Pt 5): Humans vs. Apes
Posted on08 Dec 2011
Tagsapes, context, cooperation, Cooperation vs Self-interest Series, diversity, Elizabeth Kolbert, empathy, employees, humans, intelligence, intrinsic, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Michael Tomasello, problem solving, self-interest, Sleeping With The Enemy, The New Yorker
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In a previous post, I briefly mentioned the work of Michael Tomasello of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology as reported... Read More
Entering the Golden Age of Women in Business
Posted on01 Dec 2011
Tagsattributes, workplace, women, Virginia Rometty, The Atlantic, technology, Talent, skills, relationships, men, intuition, humans, Fortune 500, Feminine Influence in Business, Chief Executive Officer
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If you have a son and a daughter both under college age, odds are greater that she will become CEO of a... Read More
Apologies & Our Personality Differences
Posted on28 Nov 2011
Tagsself-esteem, Scientific American, Andrew Howell, apologize, compassion, compliments, Grant MacEwan University, humans, Lauren Friedman, money, Personality
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We know each of us is different; however, the degree of difference is clearly underestimated. We experience this whenever we exclaim we... Read More
Blank Slates No More
Part of what makes intuition so powerful is the assumption that we are born with personalities, talents and knowledge. Life then becomes... Read More
The Silent Revolution: Understanding Ourselves
Posted on03 Nov 2011
TagsBin He, biotechnology, brain, cloud computing, conscious, emotions, energy, Francisco Pereira, free will, humans, intuition, Jack Gallant, Martin Dresler, Max Panck Institute, medical, personal computing, Princeton University, research methodologies, Star Trek, subconscious, technology, The Economist, Thoughts, University of California Berkeley, University of Minnesota
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As I had mentioned in The Rise of Intuition, the biggest advancement we’ll see in the next five to fifteen years will... Read More
