What’s In It For Me Under Attack By Nobel Prize Winner
Posted on16 Oct 2017
Tagsaltruism, behavioral economics, change management, context, cooperation, Cooperation vs Self-interest Series, self-interest, team building, Nobel Prize, Richard Thaler
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What’s In It For Me is a trite, popular slogan for the average professional driving change. It assumes that people will only... Read More
How Top Performers at Work Can Put You Out of Business
Posted on23 Nov 2015
Tagsaltruism, change management, collaboration, Performance, resistance to change, self-interest, change leadership, organizational mapping
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Most times businesses fail at their change leadership efforts. This happens even if they hire a change management consultant. Much is because... Read More
Problem With Givers at Work
Posted on04 May 2015
TagsThe Economist, The Atlantic, self-interest, psychopaths, Management by objective, evolution, Charles Darwin, altruism
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The problem with givers is that Darwin saw them as a threat to evolution. He could not explain why their altruistic trait... Read More
Cost of Feeling Busy about Our Business
Posted on26 May 2014
Tagsbusiness, effectiveness, feelings, productivity, profitability, rationale, self-interest, subconscious, bees
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A friend once pointed out that business is derived from the work “busy,” not from words such as “produce” or “profit.”. Since... Read More
People Who Feel What Others Are Feeling
Posted on15 May 2014
Tagsorganizational culture, cooperation, brain, emotions, team intelligence, team building, sensitive people, self-interest, Performance, feelings, empathy
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Sensitivity can produce performance challenges. It’s difficult for people to understand this sensitivity when coaching through these challenges. An especially challenging group... 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
How Psychopaths Become CEO’s (Pt 1) – Introduction
The short answer to this post’s title is that we let them. To understand this, we need to examine this outcome as... Read More
Power of Rule Breakers
Posted on03 Jun 2013
Tagsconfidence, cooperation, organizational culture, group, Harvard Business Review, Jeffrey Pfeffer, leadership, motivation, organization, power, psychopaths, rules, self-interest, individual
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The stress between individuals and groups exhibits itself when individuals break the group’s rules. As Jeffrey Pfeffer writes in his article “Power,... Read More
Egocentric, Reserved People (ERP’s)
Posted on21 Jan 2013
Tagspassive-aggressive behavior, over thinking, Delphine Szwarg, Twitter, Thoughts, self-interest, process, Personality, introvert, introspection, feelings, ego, decisions, decision-making process
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Delphine Szwarc asked the following of me on twitter: Can one be egocentric and reserved at the same time? More specifically, she... Read More
Correlation: Muscular Men & Self-interest
The book The Geography Behind History by W. Gordon East, which discusses the influence of geography on countries’ cultures led me a... Read More
