Monthly Archives: October 2011

Anti Social Learning: Why We Don’t Learn from Others

Watching college football this weekend, it occurred to me how great instant replay is in professional tennis. In college football and the NFL, instant replay can take so long it makes you want to change the channel. What is even worse about instant replay in the NFL is that most … Read more

The Easy Way to Learn, Courtesy of Psychologists

As a trainer, it’s pretty intuitive to understand your role as an imparter of knowledge. Your students’ brains, in this common sense understanding of learning, are like buckets into which you dump key facts and concepts. Keeping those facts stuck there is simply a matter of will and hard work … Read more

Poor Managers. Poor Performance.

Managers have enormous impact on people performance both positive and negative. However, there are too many examples of the negative impact that bad managers have on people and performance for us to ignore it the way we do.  And we do ignore it. Too many organizations react first to poor … Read more

Four Ways to Engage, Not Overwhelm, Your Employees

Change is constant – we all understand that. But a dangerous side effect in a world where information availability doubles every 2-3 years is that most of today’s employees are worn out, never knowing what is coming next while being required to get more done with less. We look to … Read more

The Ghostbusters Guide To Management

You have probably seen Ghostbusters a number of times without realizing how some of the principles in the film can be applied to management. Well they can – and here they are. All you managers, it’s time to take your cues from Peter, Raymond, Egon and Louis. (Click image to … Read more

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