12 Tips for Passing Personality Tests
Posted on23 Mar 2015
Tagspositivity, Velten Mood Induction Procedure, Pollyannaism, Personality, objective personality tests, confidence
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Passing personality tests is more and more important. More firms are using them. These tests are very lucrative too. They are not... Read More
Workplace Positivity as Weapon of Retaliation
Posted on29 Sep 2014
Tagsconfidence, conflict, dissent, movies, Pollyannaism, tools, fundamental attribution error, communism, positivity
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Workplace positivity has negative side-effects. They show up when employees try to discredit internal competitors in office politics. Employees do this by... Read More
Social Media, Email, Texting (SMET) Addiction
Posted on20 Mar 2014
Tagscreativity, effectiveness, efficiencies, email, Facebook, happiness, Pollyannaism, social media, storytelling, texting, The Atlantic, The Economist, Bloomberg Businessweek, loneliness, SMET Addiction
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A SMET addiction exists for three reasons. First, it’s extremely hard to resist engaging, and SMET has potentially harmful effects, the second... 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
Optimism Genetically Determined
Posted on08 Aug 2013
TagsThe Economist, complacency, glass half full-half empty metaphor, Oxford Centre for Emotions and Affective Neuroscience, Elaine Fox, YinYang, problem solving, Pollyannaism, pessimism, Personality, optimism, nature/nurture, innovation, glass, genetic code, free will, dissent
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We aren’t born blank slates; we come with personalities. These personalities, along with our bodies (more) and hormones influence our views, including... Read More
Top Seven Sun Tzu Quotes: #6 Seeking Victory
Posted on09 May 2013
Tagsemployees, free will, Influence, Pollyannaism, problem solving, skills, strategy, warfare, Anatomy of an Event, Sun Tzu, The Art of War, Sun Tzu Top 7 Quotes Series, Gallipoli
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At number six in my list of top seven Sun Tzu quotes from The Art of War, I have: Therefore, a skilled... Read More
Top Seven Sun Tzu Quotes: #7 Effective Orders
Posted on18 Apr 2013
Tagsprioritization, command, employees, executive, formal organizational power, leadership, morale, organization, Pollyannaism, change, success, Sun Tzu, The Art of War, Sun Tzu Top 7 Quotes Series, machismo
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Responses to my original Sun Tzu post have encouraged me to write more about important Sun Tzu quotes from The Art of... Read More
Creative Innovation (Pt 9): Pessimism’s Positivity
Imagine one chess player who can see nine moves ahead and another who can only see two. Which is more likely to... 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
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
