Perception tagged posts

Is “Understanding” your Enemy December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence

The last several years I have been hooked on the “Dans” – Pink, Kahneman and Ariely. They all seem to come around to something Malcom Gladwell shared in an interview for The Costco Connection. He said “my last three books in particular have made me suspicious of the way that all of us as human beings react to the world.” He went on to say “The assumptions we carry around in our heads aren’t very good. Our first impressions of things can sometimes be really terrible.” His new...

Understanding your Brain December 15, 2021 Emotional Intelligence

In the Time Magazine article “Mysteries of the Teenage Brain”. We learn that a teen’s brain will continue to develop well into their mid-twenties.

One of the later areas of the brain to develop is the area that evaluates non-verbal communication. In adults facial expressions are evaluated in the frontal cortex. In teenagers the same pictures are interpreted largely in the amygdala, a primitive structure more directly related to emotion...

Expectations Shape Realizations December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence

I woke up early this morning thinking about a comment made after an all-day program yesterday. She said, “He knows how I am“.

When I think about how I responded to events in my life even just a few years ago, I realize the things I used to believe about myself were not true. It also follows logically then that what I believe about myself right now is not true as well...

Leading without Positional Power December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Diagnostics, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance

The Starfish and the Spider+Employees First

Leaderless organizations are everywhere. If you don’t find ways to include everyone on your team, you may soon be the one sitting on the bench.

After reading a bio of one of my business heroes, Vineet Nayar I decided to read his favorite book The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom. Vineet was the CEO of HCL Technologies at the time and has been recognized as one of the top business thinkers in the world today...