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Do Peers Perpetuate Poor Performance?
December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Spirit at Work
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This is part three in a five part examination of the forces that keep individuals and institutions caught a cycle of stress trapped by unexamined assumptions and ill designed solutions. Part one examined the role of self in our illusory imprisonment, two the often subconscious part played by supervisors in the continuing incarceration and section three delves into the irresistible influence exerted on us by our peers...
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Peer Power Primer
December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance
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How would you create a culture that attracts 1000 applicants for every position like Zappos or grows its customer base fivefold in just four years as HCL Technologies did? Few would expect to learn the secrets of success from a small town credit union in Boulder City, Nevada, or a rural hospital in Southern Arizona, but wouldn’t you like to know how to create a team that can increase assets by 270% while only adding one employee, or how to be so honest with your board that they plead with you...
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Change belongs not to the catalyst but the community
December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance
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“There are none so blind as those who will not see.”
Contrary to popular belief this phrase popularized by Mathew Henry in his commentary on the Whole Bible (1708) is not a quote from the bible. This kind of misattribution, as I am learning from winner of the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Daniel Kahneman in Thinking Fast and Slow, is not at all uncommon. We are all thoroughly convinced of many, many connections that are not true.
One such misbelief that is shared by most p...
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Overcoming the dreaded Sales Aversion
December 15, 2021 Emotional Intelligence
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I am currently re-listening to Daniel Pink’s To Sell is Human.
I like to listen when I run and I find I get something new every time I listen. This is round six for me which brings up several new ideas and one concern. I will start with the concern because I was always taught to eat my vegetables first. It could be that most people are much quicker at absorbing ideas, applying the knowledge and changing habits than I am...
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Are you a Champion for Change?
December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance
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There are always payoffs for the lies we tell ourselves and the easiest to maintain are those we share with others which carries the appropriate scientific title of “Bandwagon Effect”. The Bandwagon that I had worked hard to be part of was that of the Charismatic Champion of Change. The fallacy was that regardless of my mastery of the topic or skills as a professional communicator that change does not happen from the top down or outside in but must be generated by champions from within.
Th...
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