How Psychopaths Become CEO’s (Pt 3) – Preferred Trends
Posted on12 Aug 2013
TagsPsychopath in Workplace Series, relationships, resistance to change, rules, Stalin, Anatomy of an Event, flow, psychopaths, Lenin, Trotsky, Russian Revolution, fiscal discipline, operational discipline, change, competition, discipline, economics, emotions, event, power, procedure, process
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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
Tagsadvertising, behavioral economics, business, computers, decisions, education, free will, Google, logic, marketing, merchandising, neoclassical economics, Personality, politics, rational actor theory, relationships, The Economist, Twitter, Bloomberg Businessweek, Joshua Green, Eric Schmidt, Barack Obama, seed planting analogy, personality as software analogy
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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
Tagslisten, Why Problems Occur Series, training, rules, relationships, process, problem solving, honesty, email, decisions, decision-making process, budgets
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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
Tagspower, Psychopath in Workplace Series, The Bad Sleep Well, rules, relationships, psychopaths, procedure, policies, Personality, objectivity, emotions, control
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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, morale, power, relationships, strategy, training, vision, warfare, Adam Smith, The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, Medal of Honor, Dakota Meyer, Battle of Ganjgal
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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
Tagsemail, Stephen Marche, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Robert Feldman, Mattitiyahu Zimbler, The Atlantic, team intelligence, team building, social media, relationships, management by walking around, management by email, management, Harvard Business Review, happiness, Facebook, computers
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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
TagsAmanda Forest, consumer, content, David Kille, emotions, Influence, Joanne Wood, leadership, people, relationships, smells, social skills, storytelling, The Economist, University of Waterloo, Velten Mood Induction Procedure, women
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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
