How Psychopaths Become CEO’s (Pt 3) – Preferred Trends
Posted on12 Aug 2013
Tagschange, competition, discipline, economics, emotions, event, power, procedure, process, psychopaths, relationships, resistance to change, rules, Stalin, Anatomy of an Event, flow, Psychopath in Workplace Series, Lenin, Trotsky, Russian Revolution, fiscal discipline, operational discipline
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Psychopaths often become CEO’s because we ask them to do so. We usually do so unknowingly, but circumstances around events encourage us... Read More
Personalities Lurk Behind Twitter Streams
Posted on25 Jul 2013
TagsThe Economist, Google, logic, marketing, merchandising, neoclassical economics, Personality, politics, rational actor theory, relationships, free will, Twitter, Bloomberg Businessweek, Joshua Green, Eric Schmidt, Barack Obama, seed planting analogy, personality as software analogy, advertising, behavioral economics, business, computers, decisions, education
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Increasingly, we are seeing the connection between all that we do and our personalities. Why is this “groundbreaking?” For centuries now, we’ve... Read More
Top Seven Sun Tzu Quotes: #3 Positioning
Posted on08 Jul 2013
Tagsbusiness, business planning, compensation, control, expectations, Influence, planning, positioning, real estate, relationships, training, warfare, Sun Tzu, The Art of War, Sun Tzu Top 7 Quotes Series, face time
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At number three in my list of top seven Sun Tzu quotes from The Art of War, I have: Thus a victorious... Read More
Why Problems Occur (Alert #1): Easy over Difficult
Posted on20 May 2013
Tagsbudgets, decision-making process, decisions, email, honesty, listen, problem solving, process, relationships, rules, training, Why Problems Occur Series
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When problems occur or when trying to anticipate them in problem solving, I look for seven alerts. While no single one automatically... Read More
Identifying Psychopaths in the Workplace
Posted on06 May 2013
Tagscontrol, emotions, objectivity, Personality, policies, power, procedure, psychopaths, relationships, rules, The Bad Sleep Well, Psychopath in Workplace Series
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Psychopaths work to amass their power. Emotions are not in the equation. They are immune to those of others, including their own.... Read More
Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Differences for the Workplace
Posted on14 Mar 2013
Tagsemployees, management, objectivity, power, psychopaths, relationships, The Bad Sleep Well, Kevin Dutton, sociopaths, Psychopath in Workplace Series
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Classical management theory is very silent on the influence of personality in business, especially psychopaths and sociopaths who can and do exist... Read More
Placebo Management (Pt 5): Emotions, Health, Performance
How we feel about ourselves affects us. It influences our health and decisions. Now, as reported in the article, “Think Yourself Well”... Read More
Relationships: The Ultimate Power
Posted on17 Dec 2012
Tagsinformal organizational power, Battle of Ganjgal, Dakota Meyer, Medal of Honor, Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, Adam Smith, warfare, vision, training, strategy, relationships, power, morale
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Many say relationships in business are important, but the real question is, “How important are they?” In reality, they are the ultimate... Read More
Computers, Emails, Dishonesty
Posted on06 Dec 2012
Tagsmanagement, computers, email, Facebook, happiness, Harvard Business Review, management by email, management by walking around, relationships, social media, team building, team intelligence, The Atlantic, Mattitiyahu Zimbler, Robert Feldman, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Stephen Marche
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Technology has made communication tremendously convenient and fast. Consequently, communicating via computers, especially emails and varying forms of text messaging and instant... Read More
Leadership Lesson from Wobbly Furniture
Posted on15 Oct 2012
Tagssocial skills, storytelling, The Economist, University of Waterloo, Velten Mood Induction Procedure, women, smells, Amanda Forest, consumer, content, David Kille, emotions, Influence, Joanne Wood, leadership, people, relationships
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The relentless advance of technology and research methodologies is accelerating our understanding of ourselves and constricting the domain of free will (more).... Read More
