How Your Psychological Blockers Sabotage You

How Your Psychological Blockers Sabotage You

The tortoise and the hare – A parable that has educated generations.  Clearly, the rabbit was faster and should have won the race by a large margin. Yet, the slow and steady turtle took home the trophy while the rabbit took a nap. We all understand the message, but...
Target Your Learning And Development

Target Your Learning And Development

A new organizational symptom of COVID-19 has recently been discovered: frozen learning and development (L&D) efforts.  While the new symptom might not be directly impacting the bottom line yet, and is not a universal symptom, such symptoms have been known to...
Collaborative Leadership In A Virtual World

Collaborative Leadership In A Virtual World

As an organizational psychologist, I’m curious about the role of leaders in a virtual work world with uncertain futures. Leaders are looked to for guidance during these uncharted times, but assuming we have to revert to command-and-control leadership to get everything...
Analytics Is A Modern-Day Answer for HR

Analytics Is A Modern-Day Answer for HR

Stone-age humans relied on them. Socrates, Confucius and Newton did, too. The Vikings used them to invade Britain. Occam’s Razor is based on them. Franz Gall used them to develop phrenology. Harry Markowitz did as well for selecting stock portfolios; Billy Beane for...