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“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
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
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
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
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
What If We Are Wrong?
Confirmation bias is the psychological term for the all-too human tendency to mainly see the information that confirms what we already believe. We often…
December 28, 2009
“Finding the Freedom of Self Control”
Self control is not a thing we are born with or without. Self control is not allotted at birth or a “blob of brain tissue…
December 9, 2009
Genius vs. Chance
Take a hundred newly-minted Harvard MBAs. Set them to work flipping coins. Track who flips nothing but heads. When you are down to one person,…
December 7, 2009