Basketball coaches have a saying: You can’t coach tall. They know the difference between a talent which is an accident of birth and a skill that can be coached, taught and learned, Clearly, the self-described Evil HR Lady (aka Suzanne … Continue reading →
During Life Before Trump, or LBT, I used to offer personality type hypotheses on presidential candidates and make predictions based on them. This started when we were conducting our personality-based sales program, Successful Selling to Type (SST) way back in 1996 … Continue reading →
This is a guest post by colleague, Russ Brooks on Bad Leaders. Although what prompted him to write this piece was an article on presidential hopeful Amy Klobuchar, bad leadership is not restricted to politics. Indeed, we see signs of … Continue reading →
It has been a miserable winter here in central Pennsylvania. Early 2019 followed the pattern set in 2018 which was the wettest year in history. And 2018 was not a little wetter, it was way wetter. For our state, the … Continue reading →
In 2007, I published a book titled Rainmakers, Closers & Other Sales Myths. The central premise was that too many organizations turn to one of four myths (Schmooze & Field of Dreams being the other two) to develop their businesses. … Continue reading →
In October 2017, I posted a blog on Daniel Kahneman’s principle of loss aversion and how the emotion of losing something drives behavior more than winning the same amount. https://www.tildensst.com/2017/10/17/whats-on-the-other-guys-mind-loss-aversion/. A little more than a year later, I have been … Continue reading →
Back in January 2016 I wrote a post lampooning all the wars being waged on the likes of drugs, terror, science, women, football, Christmas and even noisy leaf blowers. To that list I added the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) … Continue reading →
Recently, we visited granddaughters and family in nearby Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After enjoying pastries and coffee in a park, five-year-old Freya approached me and asked me to close my eyes while she hid her toy monkey. I accepted the challenge. With … Continue reading →
The spirit of recent posts has been to describe practical tools to help leaders avoid killing off their teams with aimless and unproductive meetings. The first, Death by Meetings, obviously hit a nerve as it was opened by more … Continue reading →
In 1951, Solomon Asch conducted one of the most famous experiments in social psychology. The experimental design was simple yet the impact of its findings on how we conform to social pressure has endured for nearly seven decades. Ash arranged … Continue reading →
