How to Use Bad Personality Traits to Assess Personalities
Assessing personalities is subjective. Where one sees a good trait another sees a bad one. This fact puts bad personality traits to... Read More
Secret to Creativity (Pt 2): Innovative Process and Taco Bell
A venture firm presented their search process. It began with examining about a 1,000 companies. Of those, they analyzed business plans from... Read More
Working with Psychopaths
Obviously, not working with psychopaths is the best option. That, however, isn’t always practical. Additionally, it’s neither practical nor optimal to distrust... Read More
Emotions vs Intuition (Pt 2): Operational Difference
Emotions drive our energies in a particular direction. Intuition interprets that direction similar to the way thinking interprets facts. Unlike emotions, intuition... Read More
How Psychopaths Become CEO’s (Pt 1) – Introduction
The short answer to this post’s title is that we let them. To understand this, we need to examine this outcome as... Read More
Top Seven Sun Tzu Quotes: #4 Change
Posted on20 Jun 2013
Tagschange, control, hubris, Influence, negative thinking, risk, success, Talent, Sun Tzu, The Art of War, Sun Tzu Top 7 Quotes Series, cyclical change model, fundamental attribution error, five elements
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At number four in my list of top seven Sun Tzu quotes from The Art of War, I have: Of the five... Read More
Positive Thinking as Myth
Posted on19 Sep 2011
Tagsattitude, biology, biotechnology, business, Hal Arkowitz, Influence, motivation, negative thinking, optimism, pessimism, Pollyannaism, positive, positive thinking, problem solving, Scientific American, Scott O. Lilienfeld, subconscious, thinking process, who we are, who we think we are
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I’ve seen positive thinking do much harm to some folks; if they can’t keep their smiley face on, they feel they’re failing.... Read More
Emotional Self-defense for Sensitive People (Pt 6): Defeatism & Courage
Posted on11 Aug 2011
Tagsdoubt, emotional self defense, Emotional Self Defense Series, emotions, encourage, fear, feelings, negative, negative thinking, sensitive people, sensitivity, The Bad Sleep Well
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We can easily defeat sensitive people by encouraging their negative feelings. Since they are so sensitive, these feelings can easily overwhelm them.... Read More
When Does Optimism Become Pollyannaism?
In “Before You Make That Big Decision,” which appeared in the June 2011 Harvard Business Review, Daniel Kahneman, Dan Lovallo and Olivier... Read More
Why Resistance to Change Is Natural and Healthy
Posted on07 Feb 2011
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People do not like change. It creates many problems for our organizational culture and office politics. Leaders often see resistance to change... Read More
