Wall Colors and Other Completely Random Thoughts So here is a completely random and odd blog post for you. I was watching Celebrity Apprentice tonight, and I liked the wall color of the apartment in the picture above. Yes, I'm actually blogging about this, I was watching TV, paused it, took a picture of the TV, and am now blogging about it...yes I'm strange. I have traditionally gravitated toward earth tones for my wall colors...
Culture Comes Before Technology Evan Rosen wrote a nice article in Business Week titled "Creating Collaboration Takes More Than Technology." Worse yet, the tools may have created no real value, and the decision-makers who had pinned such high hopes on these tools are surprised. Are the tools the problem? More likely, the problem is the organization. When tools fail to create value, it's usually because decision-makers adopt tools before the company's culture and processes are...
Understanding the four ingredients of professional Mojo and how to avoid killing it Marshall Goldsmith's book explores how to find and maintain your professional Mojo Marshall Goldsmith wrote Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back if You Lose It and in his book, he says that four ingredients need to be combined in order for you to have great Mojo: The Four Essential Ingredients of Mojo 1. Identity:...
Many years ago, a 10-year-old boy walked up to the counter of a soda shop and climbed onto a stool. He caught the eye of the waitress and asked, “how much is an ice cream sundae?” “Fifty cents,” the waitress replied. The boy reached into his pockets, pulled out a handful of change, and began counting. The waitress frowned impatiently. After all, she had other customers to wait on. The boy squinted up at the...
Proposed by Jeff Jarvis, author of "What Would Google Do?" Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do? wrote the below rights we should have for the Internet (source): I. We have the right to connect. This is a preamble and precondition to the American First Amendment: before we can speak, we must be able to connect. Hillary Clinton defines the freedom to connect as "the idea that governments should not prevent people from connecting...
Exploring the psychological phenomenon where we all stay silent despite privately sharing the same doubts Our brains are wired to look to others for social cues, sometimes leading us astray I just read about pluralistic ignorance, which I found fascinating. It's a psychological phenomenon that explains why groups often maintain norms that most members privately reject. This disconnect between our private beliefs and public behavior leads to some surprising and often troubling social dynamics. When...