How you can benefit by asking more questions

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

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

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

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

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...
How to benefit from practicing “agile identity”

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...