Left-brain, Right-brain, More Symbolic than Actual
Posted on30 Dec 2013
Tagsassessments, brain, cognition, integration, intuition, Personality, The Economist, left-brain, right-brain, male brain, female brain
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What we’re learning about our brains and ourselves is accelerating and challenging functional and personality models. One of those models is left-brain,... Read More
You, Center of the Universe – Demystifying Assessments
Posted on26 Dec 2013
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Imagine a world where all personality assessments use you as the benchmark, the center of the universe for the rest of us.... Read More
Leadership, The Secret (Pt 4): Leadership Riddle
Posted on23 Dec 2013
Tagschange, formal organizational power, informal organizational power, leadership, Performance, Personality, problem solving, relationships, rewards, Leadership - The Secret Series, inspiration, power in personality, leadership riddle, analogy collection, Soup Stock – Problem Solving Analogy
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Leadership has many definitions. It brings to mind the attempts to define such things as love and beauty. Sometimes, when trying to... Read More
Three Key Emotional Triggers (Pt 2): Three Manifestations
Even though we’ve identified three fundamental emotional triggers in people, we need to identify how they manifest themselves in interactions and conversations.... Read More
Leadership, The Secret (Pt 2): Training Implications
Posted on18 Nov 2013
Tagschange, competition, organizational culture, inertia, innovation, leadership, military, Personality, process, Real-time personality assessment, relationships, strategy, training, vision, internal communications, Leadership - The Secret Series, precedence, bureaucratization, self-help, military-leadership analogy, analogy collection
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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
Vanilla Words, Vanilla People, Succumbing CEO’s
Posted on07 Nov 2013
TagsCEO, character, miscommunication, original, Personality, power, relationships, vanilla words, Bloomberg Businessweek, Spice-Originality Analogy, clichés, anonymous, Forbes, Wealth Management Marketing Blog, Megan Elliott, Noah Buhayar, Victor Lipman, Vanilla Words-Thinking Series, analogy collection
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Just as our selection of cars, décor and clothing say something about our personalities so do our selection of words. Vanilla people... Read More
Three Key Emotional Triggers
Over fifteen years ago, a psychologist shared with me three key emotional triggers in humans: long-term security, novelty of experience and emotional... 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
How Psychopaths Become CEO’s (Pt 5) – Relational Preferences
Posted on09 Sep 2013
Tagsconfidence, organizational culture, emotional intelligence, hypocrisy, interpersonal, Personality, power, psychopaths, relationships, rules, style, success, Talent, uncertainty, Psychopath in Workplace Series, charisma, uniformity
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Psychopaths prefer relationships in which we will tend to: Permit psychopaths to break the rules Be seduced by confidence Misinterpret success for... Read More
Why Problems Occur (Alert #5): Big over Small
Posted on19 Aug 2013
Tagsanalogy, budgets, coaching, details, management, morale, Personality, planning, problem solving, process, relationships, rules, training, Why Problems Occur Series, Picture Resolution Analogy
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Focusing on the big rather than small, is another alert I heed as a problem identifier. This occurs when people apply overarching... Read More
