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Learning to Ring Pavlov’s* Bell Ourselves
Understanding How Social Cues Influence Our Behavior We are always picking up cues from our environment and responding to them, most of the time without…
September 22, 2009
“Any fool can make a rule…”
Most rules are made with good intentions and are designed to solve a real problem. Unfortunately, the people making the rules often do not understand…
September 16, 2009
Seven Easy Questions for Smarter Spending
1. Have I paid all my basic living expenses? Rent or mortgage payment, utilities, groceries, savings: these come first, prior to any discretionary expenditures. 2.…
September 15, 2009
Why Do Some Succeed?
Why do some succeed, often spectacularly so, and others merely survive? What human trait is the best predictor of success? Which human trait should we…
September 8, 2009
(3 of 3) Empowerment
Empowerment is a nice-sounding word that has been used a lot in recent decades. But what does it mean? Particularly in the context of the…
September 2, 2009
DNA Evidence Foolproof? NOT!
One of my pet peeves is our willingness to accept information offered up as solid fact without giving it a good smell test, without subjecting…
August 31, 2009
PopCap: Perverse Incentives and Humans: Know Thy Adversary
(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) “Those of us who looked to the self-interest of the lending institutions to protect shareholder’s equity, myself especially, are in…
August 28, 2009
(1 of 3) Empowerment Revisited
In business, empowerment is “a broad delegation of authority and commensurate responsibility to positions and persons that traditionally have not enjoyed such latitude of action.”…
August 19, 2009
Hostile Interactions and Wound Healing
Wow! This is a mouthful of a title for a blog post: Hostile Interactions and Wound Healing. It is from the title of a study…
August 13, 2009
PopCap: “The right of the people to be secure…against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…”
(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,…
August 7, 2009
Best Advice I Ever Received: Colin Powell, former Secretary of State, Retired Four-Star General
An ambitious new second lieutenant approached an old general at the bar of the officers’ club (one of the few opportunities to jump rank) and…
August 6, 2009