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Your Brain, the Final Frontier
“Space, the final frontier” introduced Star Trek’s original series, but assessments of our human knowledge indicate that the space between our ears is more of a frontier than the space above our heads is. That is a major reason the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has proposed that the Next Big Thing [… Read More]
Emotions and Intuition as Foundation of All Decisions
One of the more contrarian perspectives that has helped me appreciate people’s decisions is that emotions and its interpretive big sister, intuition, form their foundation. Even a logical decision comes about because of a person’s emotional preference for logic. While this does not mean logic, reason and rationales are not involved; it does mean they [… Read More]
Mobile Workforce: Less “Face Time,” Less Advancement
One day long ago, I was working late for an employer when the President walked into the department and commented, “You’re working late!” I replied, “Yes, my wife is out of town, so I figured I would catch up on a few things.” “I wish more thought the same way,” he concluded and continued his [… Read More]
Creative Innovation (Pt 10): Information & Interruptions
This entry is part 10 of 15 in the series Creative InnovationToday, we have expansive, quick access to information. Moreover, we have sophisticated reminders of communications we receive and the tasks to do, all of which contains information too. As a result, this information usually arrives as interruptions too. The problem is that “Too Much [… Read More]
Our Personalities: Crashing Others’ Expectations
As computers and robots are able to perform more of the mental and physical tasks of humans, we are finding they can become more unnerving to us. Why is that? “Mapping the Uncanny Valley” (The Economist, July 21, 2012 edition) examines the work of Kurt Gray (University of North Carolina) and Daniel Wegner (Harvard) to [… Read More]
Plug ‘n Play Employees: Not Enough Qualified People
How many times have employers exclaimed, “It’s so difficult to find qualified people”? Well, James Surowiecki’s article, “Mind the Gap” (The New Yorker, July 9 & 16, 2012 edition) ironically claims it’s the employers who are creating their own problem. I first experienced this when a friend working for a local manufacturer claimed they couldn’t [… Read More]
Entering the Golden Age of Women in Business
If you have a son and a daughter both under college age, odds are greater that she will become CEO of a Fortune 500 company. As I was writing my book, The Feminine Influence in Business (more), in 2003 and 2004, I made this prediction to friends: Within the next generation or two, more women [… Read More]
The Silent Revolution: Understanding Ourselves
As I had mentioned in The Rise of Intuition, the biggest advancement we’ll see in the next five to fifteen years will not be in biotechnology, cloud computing, medical treatments, alternative energy, personal computing devices or any other tangible technology. It will be in understanding ourselves as human beings. Technology and new research methodologies are [… Read More]
Correlation: High Testosterone and Poor Risk Assessment
When I’ve written about the illusion of free will, I’ve focused on the advancement of technology and research methodologies to uncover subconscious thought patterns. However, these advancements are also discovering a connection between chemical reactions and some of our emotions. In the September 24, 2011 issue of The Economist, the article, “Rogue Hormones,” reports on [… Read More]
Illusion of Free Will Revisited
I decided to revisit the illusion of free will after running across two other articles reinforcing it. As technology and research methodologies advance, we are finding more and more that biological and psychological factors heavily influence us without our knowledge, further eroding the rational actor theory. This theory forms the basis of many decision-making models [… Read More]