Vanilla Words and Uncreative Personalities, Cultures
Just as music can set the tone, so can words. Just as music can help you assess personalities, words too. In business,... 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
Creative Innovation (Pt 7): Conflict
While we’ve discussed the benefit of dissenters and disruptive personalities with respective to creativity and innovation, I’ve implied conflict but have not... Read More
Change Management – Tactic #8: Management by Walking Around
No matter how detailed and passionate someone describes his vacation to you, nothing compares to being there. The same holds true for... Read More
Linking Disruptive Innovations and Disruptive Personalities
Posted on05 Jul 2012
TagsClayton Christensen, Creative Innovation Series, crisis, David Kushner, Disruptive Innovation & People Analogy, dissent, George Holtz, Harvard University, innovation, management, Personality, sensitivity, Steve Wozniak, The New Yorker, glass half full-half empty metaphor
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Innovation is born from people. Children are like their parents in many ways. Do disruptive personalities give birth to disruptive innovations? Research... Read More
Feelings, Emotions, Intuition And Their Differences
Much does not exist when it comes to feelings, emotions, intuition and their differences. For instance, a commenter (Roger) to my post... Read More
How Reading Fiction Improves Social Skills And More
Posted on24 May 2012
TagsJordan Peterson, York University, what-if scenarios, University of Toronto, social skills, Scientific American, Sara Zoeterman, Raymond Mar, problem solving, planning, Personality, military, Maja Djikic, Keith Oatley, Jennifer Tackett, introspection, fiction, experience, empathy, emotions, Dalhousie University, computer simulations, Chris Moore, business planning, busines
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Most see book worms as socially inept. They use fiction as escape. Yet, studies show that reading fiction improves social skills. This... Read More
Most Influential Book: Roget’s Thesaurus
Someone once asked me, “What are the twenty most influential books in your life?” I listed Roget’s Thesaurus as one. It helps... Read More
Management Lessons from Online Dating
Posted on05 Mar 2012
TagsChoice, Columbia University, decisions, Eli Finkel, freedom, freedom-order duality, interpersonal, leadership, management, Mark Lepper, Northwestern University, online dating, Personality, problem solving, Sheena Iyengar, speed dating, Stanford, The Economist, thinking process, Thoughts
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The article, “The Modern Matchmakers,” from the February 11, 2012 edition of The Economist contained two major business lessons that I’ve discussed... Read More
Real-time Personality Assessment: Freedom-Order Duality
The Freedom-Order duality expresses a dimension of our personality involved in interpreting how we balance freedom and order. It can help us... Read More
