Producing powerful business results with NLP
Using NLP at an organizational level NLP business applications often suck. Well, maybe they’re not that bad, but all you hear about is rapport skills, predicate matching, and sometimes meta-programs....
View ArticleOvercoming your own change resistance
Some change resistance is good. How about yours? Click here to listen to this article as a podcast. Q: I am change-resistant. I know it, but it doesn’t help. Once I’ve decided to change something, I...
View ArticleIs Counting the Root of all Evil?
Click here to listen to this article as a podcast. The love of money isn’t the root of all evil; arithmetic is the root of all evil. More specifically, counting. Don’t get me wrong; counting was a...
View ArticleHappy or Successful? Which will you pursue?
Click here to listen to this as a podcast. Click here to download the Happy versus Successful graphic On a recent birthday I was looking back at the strategies that my friends from high school and...
View ArticleGroupthink, brainwashing, and politics: eek!
Maybe you've been successfully brainwashed and just don't know it. How would you? ... Continue reading →
View ArticleThe key to ethical, sane behavior: the *little* voice.
Your little voice may have all the answers you need. Have you ever wondered how certain corrupt businesspeople can keep spouting great, moral words while doing the exact opposite in their behavior? You...
View ArticleNightmare or Hope? Your decision.
You have only yourself to blame for the quality of your decisions. Improve it. Start today. Are you committed to becoming a spot-on decision-maker who can make great decisions that actually guide your...
View ArticleCause and Effect in Current Events
Don’t be surprised when you get the expected result. Stupidity is running rampant, world wide. It’s frustrating, because the mistakes aren’t rocket science. They’re really simple stuff. People forget...
View ArticlePublic Speaking and Performing
On rock ‘n roll, public speaking, acting, and the nature of story… Wow, what a pretentious title for this note. I hope it lives up to its promise. THE SCENE BEGINS IN AN OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL: Last...
View ArticleIs Belief Crucial To Success?
Do I have to believe in what I am doing in order to be successful at it? The power of belief is the stuff of legend. In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy must defeat the Wicked Witch of the West … Continue...
View ArticleAn apology: 8 Secrets of Success
In my post about Richard St. John’s TED talk, I critiqued his research methodology and spent the entire post pointing out flaws. I was wrong. He has since contacted me and pointed out that my...
View ArticleEngaged employees perform best.
Gallup Organization has been looking at employee engagement for many years. They’ve famously found that only a small percentage of our workforce is actively engaged at their jobs. Often, company...
View ArticleDon’t be a victim in or out of the workplace.
I have said many times in my podcast and out of it that if you can take some measure of internal ownership for bad things that happen in your life—even ownership of very small parts of the situation—it...
View ArticleYour Framing Changes the World
The way we frame things mentally determines how powerfully we’ll be able to handle them. I auditioned for Spamalot at a local theater last night. After checking in, they informed me that I was in the...
View ArticleEfficiency Might Be Bad
I’m a huge fan of system dynamics and the understanding of complex systems that has come from the field that Jay Forrester invented. This is a superb article by the late Donella Meadows about the...
View ArticleDon’t accidentally say f**k you to your customers!
T-mobile is using the tune of the song F**k You by Cee Lo Green in their latest radio ads. They apparently missed the part of psychology where people recall the words to songs. They sing about how you...
View ArticleTargeted Ads are the Worst of all Possible Worlds
The justification used for the incredible invasions of privacy on the part of the internet marketers of the world is that they want to serve us “targeted” ads. Targeted ads are ads that relate to what...
View ArticleWant to change yourself? Change the system.
While reading “The Lucifer Effect,” it’s becoming increasingly clear how much of behavior is a product of situations and systems. I think that coaches and psychological change agents are missing this...
View ArticleLaziness Expands to the Maximum
Are you lazy? How lazy? I think technology is giving us opportunities to take laziness to an entirely new level! I remember life before the Internet took over. Many things have changed. Now we can buy...
View ArticleThe Right Conversation will Get You What You Want
If you want to change your life, how do you do it? I used to think it was hard. Then I realized that most of the opportunities in life have come through one simple activity: talking to people…about...
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