We all love a good story, whether our preference is for fiction or non-fiction. It doesn’t matter if you’re reading a book, watching a movie, or listening to the news, expanding your mind watching a TEDx talk or listening to a podcast. All these media use stories to communicate their messages. Why? One reason is […]
The 3rd Industrial Revolution gave us the rise of big data, digital automation, and faster moving markets. At the dawn of this 4th Industrial Revolution (4) what lessons can we learn from the past, so we lead our organizations to create a more valuable future? Data Requires People to Look at the Past Data came and […]
Big data, machine learning, connected vehicles, Industry 4.0, robotic process automation, blockchain …. And many other ways to describe digital transformation as an emerging opportunity to transform every industry at a scale comparable to the mechanization of agriculture. Several companies including Amazon, Alibaba, Burberry, Samsung, Disney are leading the transformation wave. Results include creation of […]
Running a business is tough work. Small business owners, especially, have a difficult time keeping up with the day-to-day requirements of running a business, while honing their craft, product, or service. Sometimes, building a team is necessary in order to help your business stabilize and grow. But when it comes to getting people onboard with […]
There’s a lot of talk about self-discovery, self-help, and self-development these days. This is especially true in the business world. It seems that you can’t walk into any book store or read any blog about there being an element of self-improvement advice right in front of you. The trouble with all of this advice, however, […]
Listening with empathy is held up as the acme of great leadership. The best leaders have inspiring visions, are effective communicators and possess what may seem like boundless energy; but above all they know what it means to listen. Listening is a lost art; and it is an art. It requires creative thinking. You can’t […]
Probably the greatest challenge that scholars face in organizational behavior is getting access to information about what people do when they’re at work. Without it, they have nothing to analyze, evaluate, talk about, or publish. And if they can’t publish, then they’ll perish, because as far as universities are concerned they’ll have little, if anything, […]
Twenty years ago, Pearn Kandola – an Oxford-based business psychology firm – conducted a study in which they looked at the claims that companies made about the kind of people that they wanted to recruit. One thing they discovered was that managers tended to weed out the people who exhibited the very characteristics they said […]
Jesse Jacoby
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