Learning To Say No At Work As A Vital Success Skill
Posted on25 Feb 2019
Tagsdecisions, honesty, listen, management, motivation, success, Twitter, vagueness, politeness, indecisiveness
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Legacy17, via their Twitter page, referred a chain of tweets about learning to say no at work. Twenty people were in the... Read More
Quantifying The Power Of Lies Over Truth In The Digital Age
Posted on16 Apr 2018
Tagstruth-lies-car-analogy, sycophant, Holy Bible, Leadership - The Secret Series, Twitter, truth, social media, Mahatma Gandhi, lying, internet, gossip
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Every day of the digital age yields great insights. It shows how people really behave. They say one thing, but do another.... Read More
Post 600, Thank You to the Disagreeable and Dislikeable People
Posted on19 Dec 2016
Tagsdiversity, disagreeable, Thank You Series, homophily, Twitter, thinking process, Personality, empathy, Bridge on the River Kwai, awareness
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This is my 600th post. My blog is finishing its seventh year. In the past, I have thanked specific people for their... Read More
Big Data, Big Personality Assessor
Imagine applying for a job. In addition, to all the necessary disclosures for background checks, references, credit reports, drug tests and personality... Read More
Leadership, The Secret (Pt 9): Problems Defining & Studying
Posted on10 Jul 2014
Tagsdefinitions, health, leadership, Performance, Twitter, Leadership - The Secret Series, Greger Wikstand, Capgemini, Jaana Kuoppala, Anne Lamminpää, Juha Liira, Harri Vainio
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Greger Wikstand, a Capgemini consultant (plus much more), and I exchanged Tweets on my post, “Leadership, The Secret (Pt 6): Scientifically Unproven.”... Read More
Strategic Complimenting vs. Spontaneity
When I advocated using compliments strategically, Diana asked: Why do you have to use compliments “strategically” and not be spontaneously? The short... Read More
Danger of Humbleness
Posted on09 Jun 2014
Tagsclarity, lying, perspective, Talent, truth, Twitter, humbleness, Michelle Held, analogy collection, Sun Doesn't Know Analogy
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Michelle Held (Twitter), an entrepreneur who helps businesses develop corporate pro-social presences and mentors nonprofit start-ups, prompted this post. She requested elaboration... Read More
Perfectionism, Overcoming the Perfect Problem
Perfectionism can be problematical, often preventing completion of projects as Farah Mash attests to in a tweet regarding Creators vs. Pruners: Personality... Read More
Protection from Unwanted Unconscious Influences
Posted on03 Apr 2014
Tagsfree will, Influence, negative, price, sales, smells, subconscious, Twitter, inflammatory rhetoric, decisions, anchoring, control
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Finola Howard (@FinolaHoward), a marketing professional, found my post, “Information You Know Is Wrong Still Influences You,” interesting but wanted to know,... Read More
The Law, A False Sense of Morality?
Posted on24 Mar 2014
TagsU.S. Federal Trade Commission, cognitive dissonance, ethics, financial markets, law, moral, rules, The Atlantic, Twitter, Microsoft, Jesse Willms, Oprah Winfrey, Rosa Parks, Julie Rasmussen, healthcare, patriotism
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Our Twitter exchange regarding a quote of mine encouraged Dr. Julie Rasmussen to suggest that I incorporate it into a post. She... Read More
