Social Media, Email, Texting (SMET) Addiction
Posted on20 Mar 2014
Tagshappiness, SMET Addiction, loneliness, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Economist, The Atlantic, texting, storytelling, social media, Pollyannaism, Facebook, email, efficiencies, effectiveness, creativity
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A SMET addiction exists for three reasons. First, it’s extremely hard to resist engaging, and SMET has potentially harmful effects, the second... Read More
Emotional Self-defense for Sensitive People (Pt 9): Oak & Apple Trees
Posted on10 Feb 2014
TagsEmotional Self Defense Series, management, oak tree, Performance, Personality, sensitive people, success, The Atlantic, University of California Berkeley, Oak & Apple Tree Analogy, David Dobbs, Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Leiden University, Bruce Ellis, University of Arizona, W. Thomas Boyce, orchid-dandelion hypothesis, apple tree, analogy collection, Oak & Apple Tree Personality Analogy
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The difference between oak and apple trees fascinates me. Oak trees produce many acorns surviving squirrels and insects; however, few apples of... Read More
The Secret Hiring Indicator
As algorithms, technology and sensors advance, we are discovering that hiring for fit rather than for talent runs further, deeper and more... Read More
Increasing Social Power, Power of Stories (Pt 2)
Stories not only increase the value of our products and services but also of us, as people. They increase our social power... 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
Increasing Value, Power of Stories
Posted on12 Sep 2013
Tagsanthropology, Paul Pax, quantify, branding, food, perception, power, restaurant, storytelling, The Atlantic, values, alcohol, Bloomberg Businessweek, Graeme Wood, Antiques Roadshow, David Sax
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When you go to your next party in which people bring food, alcohol or other contributions, listen for their stories around how... Read More
Reducing Dependency on Talent through Rules
Posted on01 Apr 2013
Tagsadaptability, computers, organizational culture, employees, flexibility, instructions, logic, process, process management, rules, Talent, The Atlantic, Adam Davidson
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Rules are a form of logic especially when used in a series to form instructions. A step builds on the former step... Read More
Creative Innovation (Pt 14): Time Alone
Posted on14 Jan 2013
Tagsbrainstorming, Creative Innovation Series, creativity, introvert, Susan Cain, The Atlantic, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Gregory Feist, solitude
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Creativity and innovation requires alone time. In her article, “Hire Introverts,” The Atlantic (July/August 2012 edition) Susan Cain cites the work of... Read More
Predictability as Hell: A Problem-solving Perspective
Posted on10 Jan 2013
Tagsassessments, control, emotions, Influence, perspective, problem solving, standardization, The Atlantic, Predictability as Hell Analogy, predictability, Walter Kirn, The Twilight Zone, heaven, hell
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Businesses strive for predictability. Standardization helps them achieve that. Still, many employees like their jobs for their variability, “It’s something different every... Read More
Wildfires, Computer Models and Sophisticated GIGO
Posted on03 Jan 2013
Tagsanchoring, wildfires, Michael Behar, Velten Mood Induction Procedure, The Atlantic, quantify, Influence, history, experience, confession, computers, computer simulations
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Early on, I learned about GIGO, Garbage In Garbage Out. Translated, if you don’t input good data into the computer don’t expect... Read More
