Psychology

3 Leadership Lessons from Carlos Ghosn

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In the last issue of IESE Insight magazine, Carlos Ghosn offered three key lessons he has learned during his career. First, he said, “Every problem has a solution,” but business leaders have to be prepared to pay the personal or collective price that will come with a given solution. Second, things have to get worse … Read more

Failure is Carelessness, Success is Consistency

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Failure is Carelessness, Success is Consistency This Sunday I was at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin to watch the key Six Nations Rugby game between Ireland and England.  England won. The Irish guy sitting next to me says: “We were by far the better team.” I said “The score doesn’t show that.  We were more … Read more

The Dummies Guide to Behavior Change: Obscenely Small Steps

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The 3 Keys to Change The 3 keys to making a behavior* change in our lives are: Feel The Over-Arching Why Create Motivation Triggers Reduce Activation Energy The Overarching Why If you woke up tomorrow and the problem was solved, how would you feel? what would be different? what pain would be gone? Action: describe … Read more

If You Can’t Explain What You Do in a Paragraph, You’ve Got a Problem

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I so loved the title of Brad Feld’s post, that I just had to copy the title. This is an important one.  We live in a world of personal branding, quick online reputation checks and a lot of noise.  Authors, Entrepreneurs and job seekers get less and less time to explain themselves. This morning I was … Read more

Eliminate the Unnecessary

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“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.” Pablo Picasso I finished a wonderful 3 day seminar this week in Madrid with 30 directors ranging from industries as diverse as agriculture, to mobile handset makers, to pharmaceuticals to drinks. The course began on Tuesday morning at 9am as the participants introduced themselves, their challenges and their … Read more

TED Education: What Aristotle and Joshua Bell can teach us about persuasion

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I wrote “Give a TED talk” on my bucket list 4 years ago, today I feel happy to see the idea come to fruition. It is not a TED Talk per-se, i.e. it is not up there on a stage, but in my mind almost better – a lesson from my class, and a concept … Read more

14 Things Highly Productive People Do Differently

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I was prompted to write this post as I am finding the post-holiday return to discipline quite challenging.  I heard somewhere that it takes 30 days to build a habit, and 1 day to lose it.  Time to get the habits back again for 2013. 14 Ways to Get Things Done Start the day slowly … Read more

The 3 Hardest Words in Management

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What are the 3 words that managers find hardest to say? They are possibly the 3 words that parents find hardest to say to children.  They are 3 words that teachers very rarely say to their students. They are not “You’re the Best”. They are not “I love you”.  What might they be? The 3 hardest … Read more