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Overcoming the dreaded Sales Aversion December 15, 2021 Emotional Intelligence

I am currently re-listening to Daniel Pink’s To Sell is Human.

Daniel Pink; 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...

Fearless Conversations or Fearful Conciliation’s? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Keynote Keys, Peer Powered Performance, Training

Using Unrelated Stories to Overcome
Unreasonable Defensiveness

I was recently asked to come up with an approach to safety concerns at one of the largest concrete structures in our country.

The request, as usual, was to be funny, fix the problem, and get out. You have 45 minutes. An impossible objective, but it is entirely my own fault. I am a victim of my own creation. For two decades I have been most widely known as a keynote humorist...

Routines Reinforce Resolve December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence

The HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work seems to confirm many of the lessons we learned from Tony Schwartz in The Way We Are Working Isn’t Working and Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow.

We have a limited amount of decision making energy.

Our System Two thinking is lazy and sticking to a routine can free up our mental energy to focus on more productive tasks.

My previous boss and owner of the Coeur d’Alene Resort stuck to the same routine of exercising at 4 AM every day, he bought e...