More Money, Less Thinking
We can make tremendous money when we help people think less. As Alexander Chernev points out in “Customers Will Pay More for... Read More
Leadership, The Secret (Pt 2): Training Implications
Posted on18 Nov 2013
Tagscompetition, change, organizational culture, training, analogy collection, military-leadership analogy, self-help, bureaucratization, precedence, Leadership - The Secret Series, internal communications, vision, strategy, relationships, Real-time personality assessment, process, Personality, military, leadership, innovation, inertia
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Since leadership’s secret is centered on the hearts and minds of groups’ members, how does it reflect in training? Simply, training centers... Read More
Eight Alerts Help Us Anticipate Problems
Posted on21 Oct 2013
Tagsorganizational culture, information technology, leadership, money, perspective, problem solving, risk, sales, team building, time, Why Problems Occur Series
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People tend to solve problems within the constraints of their strengths and preferences, thus IT professionals are likely to see IT solutions,... Read More
Leadership, The Secret
Leadership is an affect, thus leadership’s secret is about what goes on in the hearts and minds of the group’s members. It’s... Read More
The Truth About Authenticity
The truth about Authenticity, a currently popular leadership and career model, is that it must be employed subtly, even covertly. Lisa Rosh... Read More
Leaders as Necessary Evils to the Individual, the Hero
Posted on16 Sep 2013
Tagscompassion, Dark Side, intrinsic, leadership, motivation, Talent, heroes, individual, Ayn Rand, Fountainhead
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When someone says, “If you’re not a leader, then you’re a follower,” he is saying that the only real existence is as... Read More
Power of Popularity in Decisions
Posted on26 Aug 2013
TagsFabian Lange, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, positioning, Princeton University, problem solving, The Economist, University of Chicago, University of Toronto, rational herding, Kory Kroft, marketing, Matthew Notowidigdo, McGill University, Matthew Salganik, Duncan Watts, Microsoft Research, Abhijit Banerjee, hiring, cognitive dissonance, decisions, emotions, facts, Influence, leadership
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Popularity influences our decisions to the point that we often subjugate our desires to what is popular. It’s a form of peer... Read More
How Psychopaths Become CEO’s (Pt 2) – Situational Preferences
Posted on18 Jul 2013
TagsPsychopath in Workplace Series, situation, rules, psychopaths, process, power, organization, leadership, hierarchy, formal organizational power, executive, control, competition
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The introductory post of this mini-series summarized the situations promoting the rise of psychopaths to CEO as: Formal hierarchies, organizations, processes and... Read More
Inflammatory Rhetoric’s Subliminal Influence on Us
Posted on04 Jul 2013
Tagsleadership, inflammatory rhetoric, trash talk, Chris Mooney, Mother Jones, words, website, phraseology, information, Influence, awareness
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Information we know is wrong still influences us. Well, it also turns out that the information’s emotional context also influences us. Chris... Read More
Power of Rule Breakers
Posted on03 Jun 2013
Tagsorganizational culture, individual, self-interest, rules, psychopaths, power, organization, motivation, leadership, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Harvard Business Review, group, cooperation, confidence
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The stress between individuals and groups exhibits itself when individuals break the group’s rules. As Jeffrey Pfeffer writes in his article “Power,... Read More
