Why and how to reflect on your experiences
“We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.” ― John Dewey This quote sums up my response to powerful Hurricane Irma as she barreled toward the Southeastern United States earlier this month. Even when the computer weather models showed...
How you can benefit by asking more questions
If you have a fixed mindset, you believe your genes determine your smarts. You treat your intelligence as being static. However, if you have a growth mindset, you believe you can develop your talents through hard work, good strategic choices, and input from others....
How to learn what people really think, want and do
Want to know what you or others will do? You can ask, but recognize that self-reports are exceptionally inaccurate. We have a horrible time predicting our future behavior. We also have a tendency to lie to ourselves, friends, family, doctors, surveys, and anyone else...
How to line up your facts and truths
Facts versus the truth. The two words are not synonyms. The difference between them is important, especially in our post-truth world. The definition of the adjective post-truth, the Oxford Dictionaries 2016 word of the year, shows how “truth” and “facts” have become...
How dogs teach us to be better leaders
We must become more like our canine companions who are able to see things from nature's point of view, otherwise known as bio-empathy. Read the full post, How dogs teach us to be better leaders, published by Forbes.com on August 14, 2017.
How to avoid the fate of the fired Google engineer
What if the former Google engineer James Damore had worked with a collaborator for his 10-page Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber screed? The outcome could have been the exact opposite. If the now fired employee had teamed up with -- or at least talked with and taken...
How to benefit from practicing “agile identity”
Whether on social media or in the real world, it’s very easy to hang out with people like you – colleagues in the same organization or friends of the same gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, social class, religion, education background, geography, or...
How to deal with assumptions and biases in a post-truth world
Are assumptions and biases different or are assumptions based on biases? When a colleague recently asked me this via email, I paused. Hardly what I was expecting. The pause was useful on two fronts. First, it made me stop and wonder, rather than continuing on...
How to build better habits for stressful environments
Do you want to be a more empathetic leader? Get at least seven hours of sleep a night? Run a more productive meeting? Read How to build better habits for stressful environments, published by Forbes.com on July 21, 2017.
