Month: December 2016

It’s that time of the year….

December 25, 2016

I always take a break from blogging during the last week of each calendar year to celebrate the holiday season with loved ones. Also, to re-charge the proverbial “batteries.” Please know how much I appreciate your interest and encouragement. However…

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Rumination Versus Reflection

December 24, 2016

According to Derek Roger and Nick Petrie in Work Without Stress, “Thinking over a problem to arrive at a solution we’ll call reflection, but to be able to reflect requires taking a detached perspective. This is not to suggest adopting…

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Three Ways to Liberate Your Organization’s Time

December 24, 2016

In Time, Talent, Energy, Michael Mankins and Eric Garton assert “too many companies are living in yesterday’s world. They are seeking competitive advantage through traditional methods, and they aren’t finding it. And they are missing their main opportunity for boosting…

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Stressless Leadership

December 23, 2016

In Work Without Stress, Derek Roger and Nick Petrie correctly point out that leaders in today’s workplace are under ever-increasing pressure. These are among what they characterize as “BOCA” conditions in the workplace culture as “BOCA conditions”: o Blurred boundaries where…

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MICROSCOPE: An essential perspective from which to observe more and evaluate it better

December 23, 2016

In Look: A Practical Guide for Improving Your Observational Skills, Jim Gilmore provides and then examines what he characterizes as six “looking glasses” to help people to more fully and more richly observe the world around them. The fourth is…

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Rick Fiery on “Capturing necessary brilliance: Learning differences unleashed!”

December 22, 2016

Imagine a business incubator offering the acceptance that drives creativity, for individuals with learning differences, who have a passion for changing the world. Rick Fiery did – and every day he sees the necessary brilliance we all need, that so…

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MAGNIFYING GLASS: An essential perspective from which to observe more and evaluate it better

December 22, 2016

In Look: A Practical Guide for Improving Your Observational Skills, Jim Gilmore identifies and then examines what he characterizes as six “looking glasses” to help people more fully and more richly observe the world around them. I agree with him:…

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Who was Amos Tversky and why is he significant?

December 21, 2016

Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (above) are the focal point of Michael Lewis’s latest book, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, published by W.W. Norton & Company (December 2016). Tversky was a cognitive psychologist who changed the…

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4 Assumptions About Risk You Shouldn’t Be Making

December 21, 2016

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Scott Anthony for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…

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Marketing’s Holy Grail: Digital personalization at scale

December 20, 2016

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Brian Gregg, Hussein Kalaoui, Joel Maynes, and Gustavo Schuler for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about…

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