[Opinion] The Future of the MBA

Most MBA program curriculums educate students in the parts of managing, analyzing, and operating an organization that organizations have deemed important: accounting, finance, managerial economics, operations, strategy, and information technology. All of these are great areas of focus, as well as areas of specialization, but with 4,000 programs at 454 Read more…

[Advice] What to Do After You Thin-Slice

Thin slicing happens when the human mind shifts quickly through first impressions, intuition based on past experiences, and current information, and makes a judgment about a message, a person, or an idea. Thin slicing is at the root of snap judgments, continuing conflicts, nagging disagreements, and fights that never seem Read more…

[Opinion] The Self-Deception Game

There will always be the option to drink your own Kool-Aid. There will always be the option to continue believing that “everything will just ‘work out’ somehow.” There will always be the option to avoid doing the hard work of being uncomfortable while learning a new competency (consciously unskilled) and to Read more…

[Opinion] The Candy Coated World

There is a lot of advice floating around about how to build a better world. Most of the advice though, is similar to that one M&M candy in every bag which when bitten into, collapses revealing nothing underneath the candy-coated shell. The leaning on symbolism—the candy-coated shell—rather than focusing on the hard Read more…

[Advice] Relational Resonance

Resonance is a term from physics that describes what happens when an object’s natural vibration frequency responds to an external stimulus of the same frequency. Resonance occurs in nature when an object vibrates without you even touching it. Resonance happens when people fall in love with each other; and, resonance Read more…

[Strategy] Bad Ideas

The equation is simple: Talents + Knowledge + Skills + Effort = Strengths Talents are non-teachable. They are naturally recurring patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors that can be productively applied in a person’s life. Effort is also non-teachable. Effort is based on intrinsic motivation, as well as extrinsic influencers. Read more…