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Choose your lies wisely: Why We Don’t Always Tell the Truth

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February 22, 2012
Choose your lies wisely: Why We Don’t Always Tell the Truth

Via Scoop.it – Intuitive Business When I was growing up, one of the principles in our house was that we had to tell the truth, no matter how painful it might be. Lying, we were taught, wasn’t something you could get away with. Like Pinocchio’s nose, it would be apparent to others. Ron Ashkeans...
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Is ‘Mindset’ the same as ‘Haltung’ ?

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January 19, 2012
Is ‘Mindset’ the same as ‘Haltung’ ?

Via Scoop.it – Intuitive BusinessWith all the chatter about cognitive processes going on lately, one aspect I have missed in the discussions is that of one’s mindset. It wasn’t until this morning, when I was looking for a translation of “Haltung”, that I realized that mindset is what I believe we need to reflect...
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Why Bosses Who are Civilized and Caring, But Incompetent, can be Really Horrible

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January 10, 2012
Why Bosses Who are Civilized and Caring, But Incompetent, can be Really Horrible

Bob Sutton, who writes so wonderfully on-point about bosses, both good and bad, has added a new category of a bad boss – one who is nice but incompetent. The idea behind this is that there are bosses who are actually incompetent, but because they are such nice people, nice to both staff and...
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The “Attribution Error” and “Halo Effect” in Action: we predict others’ behaviour much better than our own

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January 9, 2012
The “Attribution Error” and “Halo Effect” in Action: we predict others’ behaviour much better than our own

Via Scoop.it – Intuitive Business The Attribution Effect or Error, along with the Halo Effect, both describe our tendencies to misjudge others. In short, the attribution error attributes our own good circumstances to character strengths but those of others to circumstance. “I did well on the test because I studied/am smart…, but Mary got...
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What Popular Psychology Books Forget: The Danger of Storytelling

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January 8, 2012
What Popular Psychology Books Forget: The Danger of Storytelling

Via Scoop.it – Intuitive BusinessHuman beings are simplifiers. Thales thought that everything was made of water; Aristotle thought that all human action was to achieve happiness; Freud thought that all human action was to avoid anxiety… and we all use some form of heuristics (mental shortcuts) in order to deal with the pure magnitude...
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If you only do one thing different in 2012…..

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December 28, 2011

The end of the year is always a good time to take measure of where we are and where we seem to be heading. The Library of professional Coaching just published a story by Charles Smith, Ph.D. that (in true coaching manner) looks back out of the future. In the story, the year is 2015 and...
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If you must lie, do it face-to-face: Lies, lies, lies (Management Issues)

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December 23, 2011

If you must lie, do it face-to-face – that way, if you get caught the repercussions may be less than if you had lied in writing.Another some things that we may intuitively feel are now proven through studies: we tend to lie more easily in writing than face-to-face (video counts as face-to-face),because it is harder, they...
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What’s good for the gander is not good for the goose: Humility key to effective leadership

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December 11, 2011
What’s good for the gander is not good for the goose: Humility key to effective leadership

Humble leaders are more effective and better liked, according to a study forthcoming in the Academy of Management Journal.PsyPost… Intuitively, this is something we probably agree with. How much better to work with or for someone able to admit a mistake, or ignorance on a topic, able to apologize, or just someone who has...
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Seeing Without Knowing: How the Conscious Mind Messes With Memory

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December 11, 2011
Seeing Without Knowing: How the Conscious Mind Messes With Memory

Our memories aren’t very reliable. The sobering truth is that we forget most of what we experience, our memories are usually distorted after they are formed and we have the tendency to accept misinformation about the past and faithfully adopt it as…It is ironic that our conscious mind is not only unable to counteract...
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How to shape reality to contorm to your beliefs: Correlation or Causation?

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December 11, 2011
How to shape reality to contorm to your beliefs:  Correlation or Causation?

Need to prove something you already believe? Then just make a graph. Using a number of very strange correlations, Businessweek shows how correlations suddenly become possible cases of causation.  To do this, you just find 2 elements with either similar or totally divergent curves and then ask a question which implies causation. The effect...
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