Playing poker with another party who holds the keys to nuclear weapons (literal, metaphorical, or figurative), and has given indications based on experience that they will be willing to deploy them, is a dangerous game. The stakes are high, but not for the obvious reasons of total physical, emotional, spiritual, Read more…
Teutonic organizations believe that size makes up for persuasion. Small organizations believe that persuasion makes up for size. The problem in both organizations is scale, not properly understood. Because your organization, your team, your personality, or your project is large, that doesn’t mean that persuasion is something to be abandoned. Read more…
Resonance is underrated as a way of sparking change. There are two things that happen when we hear an idea that resonates with us: We admire the person who shared the message with us. We file the message away in the back of minds. Occasionally there are those people who Read more…
Clearing out the cruft that surrounds your reactions and responses to conflicts in your life, can take at least a lifetime. Clearing out the cruft that surrounds your employee’s reactions and responses to conflicts in your organization can take at least 20 years. Clearing out the cruft that surrounds your Read more…
Most people don’t see it. Confusing the primacy of what we can see, touch, taste, and feel, closes our human perceptions to the potential financial and monetary value of what we cannot measure and codify with our five senses. This is evident in the primacy of the use of relationship Read more…
Pursuing the chimera of “Big Data,” means little in the face of human irrationality and unpredictability when the impact of emotions is removed from the analysis. Emotions are everywhere, and all around us, driving our reactions to events, our desires to record and document those events, and our drives to Read more…
The standing rule is that people tend to most easily believe in conspiracy theories that they create; and tend to reject the conspiratorial thinking of others. The trouble with our concerns about fake news, is that they come from a place where critical thinking has been reduced in favor of Read more…
The deep revelation of the revolution called the Internet, is that it continues to demonstrate that networks are the most valuable resource that an individual, a corporation, or a government possesses in order to leverage innovation, change, and advancement. Of course, during the height of the Industrial Revolution last century, Read more…
There are monumental shifts happening everywhere, from politics to religion. There are very few people really able to understand and analyze two things that happen at the same time: The trend lines in culture, society, economics, and religion are moving in a certain direction. The trend lines in technology, jobs, Read more…
Let’s talk about potential. The idea that another person can do something that you can’t do, and do it better than you, typically engenders a couple of different responses in people: The first reaction is one of coveting, not only the talent that the other person has, but also the Read more…