Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It

Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It

Artwork: Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, 2013, wood, metal, glass mirrors, plastic, acrylic panel, rubber, LED lighting system, and acrylic balls, 113″ x 163 3/8″ x 168 1/8″; ©Yayoi Kusama. Courtesy of David Zwirner, Victoria Miro Gallery, Ota Fine Arts, KUSAMA Enterprise Since Michael Porter’s seminal work in the 1980s we have had a clear and widely accepted definition of what strategy is—but we know a lot […]

Here’s what makes a great CEO — do you have what it takes?

Here's what makes a great CEO — do you have what it takes?

Enlarge Photo Former energy CEO Al Bolea and University of Houston professor Leanne Atwater teamed up to study what makes great business leaders. 15 photos Home of the Day Sponsor Listing Former energy CEO Al Bolea and University of Houston professor Leanne Atwater teamed up to study what makes great business leaders. Al Bolea has seen it from all angles and determined that a great energy CEO is someone who has developed strong leadership […]

7 Memory Skills That Will Make You Smarter

7 Memory Skills That Will Make You Smarter

Good Will Hunting chalkboard Learning ability is probably the most important skill you can have.  Take it from Peter Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel, authors of ” Make It Stick: The Science Of Successful Learning .”  “We need to keep learning and remembering all our lives,” they write. “Getting ahead at work takes mastery of job skills and difficult colleagues … If you’re good at learning, you have an advantage in life.”  And […]

Psychology Theories

Psychology Theories

Much of what we know about human thought and behavior has emerged thanks to various psychology theories. For example, behavioral theories demonstrated how conditioning can be used to learn new information and behaviors. Psychology students typically spend a great deal of time studying these different theories. Some theories have fallen out of favor, while others remain widely accepted, but all have contributed tremendously to our understanding of human thought and behavior. By learning more […]

Successful Marriages And Employer-Employee Relationships Share This Crucial Characteristic

Successful Marriages And Employer-Employee Relationships Share This Crucial Characteristic

Jay and Beyonce support one another’s careers. See Also Psychologists Say Couples Have To Make It Through This Stressful Phase To Have A Healthy Marriage Psychologists Say You Need These 3 Compatibilities To Have A Successful Marriage Marriages And Businesses Fail For The Same 3 Reasons, Says A Silicon Valley Couples Therapist Making your employee feel valued and your spouse feel loved both depend on the same thing: significance.  As couples psychologist Peter Pearson […]

How Smart People Solve Unsolvable Problems

How Smart People Solve Unsolvable Problems

rubix cube See Also Here’s What Happened When A Coach Improved Every Tiny Thing By 1% Here’s How Smart You Have To Be To Succeed 4 Simple Ways To Achieve Rapid Success Richard Feynman won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest physicists of all-time. (He was a pretty solid bongo player as well). [1] Feynman received his undergraduate degree from MIT and his Ph.D. […]

How People Learn

Despite his best efforts and long hours, Nobel-Prize winning physicist and professor Carl Wieman grew frustrated by his inability to teach and his students’ failure to learn. When I first taught physics as a young assistant professor, I used the approach that is all too common when someone is called upon to teach something. First I thought very hard about the topic and got it clear in my own mind. Then I explained it […]

How Much Can Your Employees Get Away With?

How Much Can Your Employees Get Away With?

I was baffled. It was years ago, during my first semester as a physics and math teacher at a last chance Brooklyn public high school. I could be as clear as day about my intentions, what I wanted from the kids, my reasons, and the consequences for non-compliance, and yet the kids did whatever they wanted. But after a while, they started to fall in line. What was happening? One of the benefits of […]