Leadership
Why Do More Buying Choices Cause Unhappiness?
More buying choices lead to less happiness. To make better shopping decisions, satisfice and limit your options. Look for products that are good enough.
Read MoreBuild Strong Stakeholder Relationships Through These Three Social Intelligence Methods
Form lasting connections to stakeholders and help them feel understood by using the three social intelligence methods of empathetic listening, echoing and mirroring, and building rapport.
Read MoreThe Dangers of Mental Health Challenges for Startup Founders
Startup founders can defeat mental health challenges and avoid burnout by paying attention to their mental health, seeking help, and standing up to pressure from major investors and Board members
Read MoreWhy Your Negotiations Are Doomed (And How to Rescue Them) (Videocast and Podcast of the “Wise Decision Maker Show”)
We intuitively overestimate how well others read us and how well we read others, a dangerous judgment error called illusion of transparency. This mental blindspot leads to disastrous results in negotiations and communications.
Read MoreAre You Falling for the Myth of “Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail”? (Videocast and Podcast of the “Wise Decision Maker Show”)
Because we usually feel that everything is going to go according to plan, we don’t pay nearly enough attention to potential problems and fail to account for them in our plans. This problem is called planning fallacy.
Read MoreThe Secret of Getting Optimistic and Pessimistic Employees to Collaborate Effectively
Maximize the value that pessimists and optimists bring to your enterprise by helping them work together well. Optimists should generate half-baked ideas and give them to the pessimists, who would select the most viable notions and finish baking them into full-fledged plans.
Read MoreHow to Prevent Failure in Working From Home to Address the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic
To prevent disasters in transitioning to working from home, imagine that your transition completely failed. Then, brainstorm all plausible reasons for failure, and generate solutions to these potential problems. Do the same to maximize success.
Read More3 Key Empathy-Based Methods to Uncover the Truth About Your Stakeholders
Using the three social intelligence methods during a stakeholder meeting will help you learn the truth about your stakeholders’ needs, which will empower you to solve their problems and foster stronger relationships with them.
Read MoreSaving Your Relationships From the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic
Your relationships will be undermined or even destroyed by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, unless you take proactive steps right now to save them by treating our current conditions as the new normal.
Read More8 Powerful Questions You Need to Ask Before Stakeholder Engagement
Asking the 8 Powerful Questions during a pre-engagement stakeholder assessment will lead to better engagement and stronger relationships with your stakeholders.
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