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Assessing Personalities From Music People Like To Hear

Posted on27 Aug 2018

Tagsassessments, closed questions, listen, music, open-ended questions, questioning techniques, Real-time personality assessment, Real-time Personality Assessment Series

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Assessing personalities from music gives great insights into others. It’s very personal. It’s very complex too. Science does not even know why...

Familiarity Meets Failure Often Without People Knowing Why

Posted on16 Feb 2015

Tagsconflict, dissent, fear, happiness, music, pessimism, security, unknown, newness, Wray Herbert

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When it comes to music, we lean to the tunes we know. When it comes to solutions, we lean to the ones...

Problems with Freedom of Choice

Posted on12 Jan 2015

Tagsleadership, fluency, KISS Principle, Thoughts, thinking process, The Atlantic, resistance, music, freedom, Choice, change

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Leaders rely on advice. Much of it comes from employees. It is common fare today to tell leaders to set direction, delegate,...

Zombies To The Rescue

Posted on07 Apr 2014

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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...

Three Key Emotional Triggers (Pt 2): Three Manifestations

Posted on28 Nov 2013

Tagsassessments, behavior, conversation, decisions, emotions, music, Personality, Real-time personality assessment, security, Thoughts, writing, emotional triggers, growth, Three Key Emotional Triggers Series, uniqueness

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Even though we’ve identified three fundamental emotional triggers in people, we need to identify how they manifest themselves in interactions and conversations....

Working with Psychopaths

Posted on26 Sep 2013

Tagsorganizational culture, diversity, golf, instinct, intuition, multi-tasking, music, negative thinking, psychopaths, standardization, trust, workplace, KISS Principle, simplification, Psychopath in Workplace Series

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Obviously, not working with psychopaths is the best option. That, however, isn’t always practical. Additionally, it’s neither practical nor optimal to distrust...