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Managing the brain and managing the emotions… 4 Feb 2013 | 12:23 am
… are absolutely two different things. I was talking with one of my client senior managers with the widest span of responsibility yesterday. They’re coping with a lot of the things that leaders have ...
Does our Pursuit of Happiness hinder Getting Things Done? 2 Jan 2013 | 12:30 am
Taking a bit of a flyer on this one. Not particularly thought through, but it struck me in preparation for a talk entitled The Science of Happiness. In a line from Daniel Nettle’s great book ‘Happine...
Nudge Yourself To Change 25 Dec 2012 | 12:09 am
Back to the game playing idea, I read an interesting article in the Times loosely based around Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein’s book Nudge. Thaler and Sunstein ‘demonstrate how thoughtful “choice a...
Time Management and Satisficing 17 Nov 2012 | 01:49 am
Massage by Steve Woods Satisficing is defined as ‘a decision-making strategy which attempts to meet criteria for adequacy, rather than to identify an optimal solution’ – Wikipedia. It is a blend of w...
Leaders Learning Skills from their Teams 28 Oct 2012 | 11:15 pm
The Open Book by Dan Christian Lavric Just something that occurred to me today as I was taking a note of what one of me client senior managers had said to me that I wanted to learn from. How many le...
Leadership Traps: Thinking too Fast and Continuing Biases 22 Sep 2012 | 12:57 am
I’ve been thinking about leadership traps I’ve read about recently (predominantly in Guy Claxton’s Hare Brain Tortoise Mind, but brought into relief by various mainstream Management Today, Fortune and...
Surely Continual Learning Should Apply to the Boss Too? 21 Aug 2012 | 12:42 am
World in My Hand by Sachin Ghodke I was clearing through some old articles I cut and not yet reviewed. About a year ago the FT ran a survey of global business leaders to try and ascertain whether the...
Mind Control and the Completeness Obsession 23 Jul 2012 | 11:50 pm
Network Neurons by Gerard79 I’m thinking a lot about whether I trust myself. Not in the bigger sense of being out of control at certain points (I’ve controlled those remaining outposts of wildness o...
Four ways to read differently to be successful 5 Jun 2012 | 03:14 pm
With the amount of great content available we need to examine our strategies for consuming information. An article on Forbes.com today questions whether you are reading fast enough to be successful ...
The Role of Leadership Vision 11 May 2012 | 02:20 am
I was thinking about the concept of leadership and the importance of the leader’s vision to the group of people being lead. Specifically, the multiple levels in which leadership vision works. I know a...