Tempering Extreme Views At Work Using Reverse Psychology
Posted on10 Sep 2018
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Reverse psychology has many uses. Tempering extreme views is one of the lesser known ones. The Process For Tempering Extreme Views The... Read More
Tapping Feeling Superior To Others To Motivate Employees
Posted on25 Jun 2018
Tagsemployees, Harvard Business Review, Harvard University, motivation, psychology, team building, social comparison theory, Ryan Buell
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People don’t like to feel they’re at the bottom. Almost all people, to some degree, have the need of feeling superior to... Read More
How Extroverted and Introverted Status Seekers Differ
The need for emotional recognition triggers status seeking. Through status people strive to show their uniqueness, their specialness. Both extroverted and introverted... Read More
Leadership, The Secret
Leadership is an affect, thus leadership’s secret is about what goes on in the hearts and minds of the group’s members. It’s... Read More
Power of Context on Intoxication
Posted on22 Jul 2013
TagsInfluence, intoxication, alcohol, Texas Tech University, Andrew Goudie, Alice Young, McMaster University, Shepard Siegal, Pavlovian conditioning, University of Liverpool, psychology, positioning, pigeonholing, Personality, objective, management, emotions, context, conditionality, change management, body
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Context dramatically influences us. As the article, “Various Ways You Might Accidentally Get Drunk” (The Atlantic, May 2013 edition) by James Hamblin,... Read More
Confidence as a Psychological Weapon of Leadership
Posted on02 May 2013
Tagscertainty, confidence, facts, honesty, Influence, interpretation, leadership, logic, message, power, psychology, subconscious, trust, uncertainty, martyrs
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Confidence frequently indicates incompetence. However, leadership often requires confidence. Since people often fear uncertainty, they naturally gravitate to people who provide certainty,... Read More
Illusion of Free Will Revisited
Posted on22 Sep 2011
Tagsgenetic code, The Economist, The Atlantic, technology, subconscious, rationale, rational actor theory, psychology, Personality, nature/nurture, free will, evolution, decisions, David Eagleman, biology, behavior
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I decided to revisit the illusion of free will after running across two other articles reinforcing it. As technology and research methodologies... Read More
Information You Know Is Wrong Still Influences You
Posted on21 Jul 2011
Tagspsychology, rationale, subconscious, Talent, Thoughts, planting a seed, Daniel Kahneman, anchoring, Before You Make That Big Decision, cognition, Dan Lovallo, decisions, dice, gossip, Harvard Business Review, Influence, information, intuition, judges, Olivier Sibony, pigeonholing
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Previously, I listed some unconscious biases we have in decision-making. What I witness is that people just don’t believe that known wrong... Read More
Nurturing Positive Feelings Dramatically Improves Employee Performance
Posted on30 May 2011
Tagsnurture, University of Cologne, Top Gun, Tom Cruise, supersititions, psychology, Psychological Science, positive, Placebo Management Series, Performance, movies, Maverick, Lysann Damisch, Harvard Business Review, employees, emotions, discipline, confidence, compliments
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Nurturing positive feelings inside employees improves their performance. I read two articles that support this. One deals with the positive feelings from... Read More
What Consumer Psychology Teaches Us About Problem Solving
Posted on27 Sep 2010
TagsMichael I. Norton, objective, peer pressure, people, price, problem solving, psychology, rationale, rewards, teach, low-cost, change, anticipatory, beverages, brain, business, buying habits, cognition, competitive, consumer, cost-benefit, Dan Ariely, decisions, drugs, emotions, expectations, goal setting, Harvard Business Review, How Concepts Affect Consumption, intuition, keeping up with the Joneses
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We often anticipate and rationalize people’s decisions using a cost-benefit analysis. This perspective frequently leads to erroneous conclusions and restricts problem-solving capabilities.... Read More
