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“Psycho-Cybernetics,” Maxwell Maltz, and Self Image
“Psycho-Cybernetics,” Maxwell Maltz, and Self Image
“Psycho-Cybernetics” is a book written in 1960 by plastic surgeon Maxwell Maltz. Dr. Maltz stumbled onto an interesting phenomenon: while in most cases “a person…
January 29, 2010
WSJ: Thinking Happy Thoughts at Work?
The Wall Street Journal has gone New Age. Or maybe Wall Street is finally just catching up with the wisdom of our grandparents. In a…
January 28, 2010
Positive Thinking vs. Magical Thinking
Thinking will NOT make it so. Or at least thinking will not automatically make it so. Positive thinking will not robotically make your troubles go…
January 27, 2010
More Than a Job
“You are not here merely to make a living” “You Are Not Here Merely to Make a Living” is a sign at the desk of…
January 26, 2010
Who Would I Be Without That Belief?
Who are we? What are we capable of? How much of what limits us is external? How much of our limits come from within? Questions…
January 25, 2010
Leadership and Perceptions of Power
“People impute all kinds of things to leaders, and sometimes it is thinking of them as disproportionately powerful and imagining them to be much more…
January 22, 2010
Permissive Never Produced Greatness
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard,…
January 21, 2010
The Perils of Ageism
Your beliefs strongly affect your reality. To a large extent, in ways small and large, our beliefs create our reality. How we see the world…
January 20, 2010
The Power of Internal Validation
Where do you get your sense of validation? Your sense of self? Your sense of approval? “I am who I am every day. I don’t…
January 19, 2010
Experts Often Aren¹t (Take 2)
Insiders in a field know that frequently there is more room for professional judgment in certain pronouncements than the general public realizes. Often that is…
January 18, 2010
“Old Habits Bedevil”
What creates the motivation for change? Popular mythology states that “near death” experiences create meaningful life changes. Yet a February 7, 2009, New York…
January 15, 2010
What Difference Do You Make?
There is a motivational website I bookmarked called Think TQ. I visit the site regularly because it has a message of the day, which frequently…
January 14, 2010
Exceed Expectations
Someone once asked me what goals should be set for a new hire. My answer was simple: – Exceed expectations. – Impress me. –…
January 13, 2010
Experts Often Aren’t: Expertise (and Experts) Are Over Rated
How did we get in this financial mess? How were we led over an economic cliff? Was it because we trusted the wrong experts? Or…
January 12, 2010
Emotional Intelligence
What is emotional intelligence? Why does it matter? In today’s hyper-competitive environment, technical ability and intellectual talent are taken as a given, merely table…
January 11, 2010
PopCap: Heads Taxpayers Lose, Tails Goldman Wins
(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) Back in 2007, the Federal Reserve (our government, or us, the taxpayers) engineered a $182 BILLION bailout of insurance giant…
January 8, 2010
Fatalism vs. Future Orientation
It’s the old question: “Que sera, sera” vs. “Where there is a will, there is a way.” Or in psych speak, fatalism vs. future orientation.…
January 7, 2010
Good Example Matters
The deleterious long-term effects on the brains and bodies of football players has been in the news of late. There are those who might take…
January 6, 2010
68 Rules, or Three Principles That Matter?
William Green, CEO of the $20+ billion (revenues) mega-consulting firm Accenture tells of the time he attended a 3-day training session for new managers (The…
January 5, 2010
Questions Are the Answer
Questions focus the mind. The questions we choose to ask ourselves direct our thoughts, our efforts, thus the eventual results we create. We rarely achieve…
January 4, 2010