Just because you can learn something does not mean it can be taught. Leadership, like courage, can definitely be learned. But not taught. And especially not taught in a classroom. I’m thinking about this because I just opened an email inviting me to a month’s worth of webinars and classes that ostensibly will teach me [...]
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This is Bullsh*t
In the 1950′s, social psychologist Solomon Asch ran a series of experiments in which he discovered that acceptance by others is more important than being right. These are known as his conformity experiments. What Asch did was put individuals in a room with five other people who were all secretly part of the experiment. He [...]
Let me get this straight: you spend 40 hours plus there every week, and you haven’t figured out to find something about your job to like… if for no other reason than to make the time go by faster? You spend two hours a day commuting on the (Chicagoans, insert your choice of parking lot [...]
The difference between an idealist and a realist is not the same as that between an optimist and a pessimist. Whereas the optimist and pessimist disagree about whether to use “can” or “can’t,” idealists and realists disagree on whether to use “should” or “will.” Optimists and pessimists disagree at the outset of a project; idealists [...]
Nice job, Laurie. For those of you too engrossed in your Google Readers to follow the link, here’s what you’d learn if you did: my friend Laurie Ruettimann, aka The Cynical Girl (notice the title of this post—clever, huh?) wrote recently about gut instincts. She says following your gut is dangerous if your gut sucks, [...]
I got called out a few weeks on my blog for being a chauvinist. The charge was lazy: if you enjoy mistaking pragmatism for sexism, there’s much better material to be found on my blog to work with. There’s also very strong offsets, like this one, if you’re inclined to see me as actually supportive [...]
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