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Brain Fitness: The Lost Art of Single Tasking

Sometimes the demands on managers’ time and attention makes one feel like a juggling octopus. After a while we get awfully good at multitasking. Perhaps

January 14, 2016 No Comments

Brain Fitness: Keeping Sharp at Work

You can’t expect yourself to perform well on the job unless you pay attention to brain fitness. If you’re starting to wonder about forgetting things,

January 11, 2016 1 Comment

Thinking Styles: What Color Is Your Hat?

Typically, we handle problems in a tried and true way that we’re comfortable with. We don’t even think we have a thinking style because it’s

December 30, 2015 No Comments

Conversation Social Signals:
Mimicry and Activity

I’m intrigued by conversation social signals, as described in the book by Alex Pentland called Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World. Pentland’s research reveals

November 23, 2015 No Comments

Communicate Better Using Social Signals

How can you communicate better? The way to improve business communication skills is to become adept at detecting four kinds of social signals that go

November 16, 2015 No Comments

Creative Insights:
How to Spark the Flow of Ideas

As they share in their book, The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight and the Brain (Random House, 2015), psychology professors John Kounios and Mark

November 12, 2015 No Comments

Boost Team Performance
with Creative Insights

Managers looking to boost team performance need to minimize mistakes without crushing creativity. Some bosses may inadvertently suppress people’s creative insights. While bragging about innovative,

October 29, 2015 No Comments

Boost Team Performance:
3 Things You Can Do Today

If you’ve ever asked yourself how you can improve team performance, it’s not complicated or mysterious. You can do three simple things today to immediately

October 26, 2015 No Comments