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The Business of Nonverbal Communication: How Signals Reflect Your Brand
Information is infinite and time is very finite. We are all looking for little poker “tells” that will give us an accurate appraisal of another’s character and motivations in the shortest amount of time.
The Prisoner’s Dilemma: The Key to Creativity
Obviously, education, training, prior experience, financial rewards, and traditional ways of measuring intelligence don’t account for all this creative achievement. So what does? More importantly if great leaders are creative leaders, what can we learn from prisoners?
The Missing Elephant in the Bedroom
Jack Welch, GE’s former CEO and leadership maven made headlines by castigating Hewlett Packard’s board for gross negligence in the wake of the scandal that cost CEO, Mark Hurd, his job. However it was not the scandal per se that drew his ire, but that HP had done such a poor job in succession planning and overall leadership development.
Job One for Leaders
As CEO I always told job applicants that my primary job was increasing pressure while decreasing stress. Most people equate pressure with stress, but they are actually not synonymous. So what is the difference between pressure and stress?
The Confession of a Serial Stereotyper: How to Stereotype Your Way to Success
As a lifelong student of human nature I have some very strong opinions on the subject. As a result, I often meet people who flourish, “That’s a stereotype!” like a trump card. In a single stroke I’ve been found guilty not only of faulty logic but faulty morals as well.
It’s Not What We Think but How We Think: 3 Leadership Lessons from the IBM Executive School
About a year after we started our company an ice storm shut down the city. Yet despite some hilarious misadventures that were quickly embedded into our corporate mythos, we all made it to work. Three days later I ran into a friend at the gym who worked for the state of North Carolina. Surprised to see him during business hours, he told me that state employees were still off for the ice storm.
“I don’t get it.” I blurted forgetting my manners. “You can’t get to work but you get to the gym?
4 Steps to Make Change Happen: Overcoming Resistance to Change
How do you overcome resistance to change? Try to be [...]
