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
Tapping Pricing’s Secret (Pt 2): Setting the Stage
Posted on31 Oct 2013
Tagsrelationships, anchoring, branding, change, emotions, personification, price, product, rationale, sales, service, storytelling, Pricing - The Secret Series, Play - Pricing Analogy
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Normally, when pricing our products and services, we research the market, compare our features and benefits, consider our margins and then set... Read More
Top Emotion Aroused by Facebook
The top emotion aroused by Facebook is envy a study found led by Ethan Kross (University of Michigan) and Philippe Verduyn (Leuven... 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
Change Management, The Secret (Pt 2): Minority Power
In Part 1, we learned relationships are the secret to change. If we ponder all the one-on-one relationships we must leverage to... Read More
Why Problems Occur (Alert #7): One over Many
Given many causes of a problem, humans tend to focus on one as the cause rather than the pattern they produce, a... 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
Change Management, The Secret
The secret to change management is relationships. In his article, Slow Ideas (New Yorker, July 29, 2013 edition), Atul Gawande describes change... Read More
How Psychopaths Become CEO’s (Pt 4) – Preferred Cultures
Posted on22 Aug 2013
Tagsauthority, competitive, conflict, organizational culture, dissent, diversity, education, emotional intelligence, Harvard Business Review, incentives, negative, process, psychopaths, relationships, rules, self-interest, Psychopath in Workplace Series, bottom-line focus, ends justifies means
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Previously, the situations and trends psychopaths prefer. Now, we will discuss the cultures as summarized in the introductory post of this mini-series:... 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
