Confrontation amongst colleagues isn’t the transgression emotive legalists would have you believe. Nor is it license to abuse as the office trolls hope it will be. Instead, like any other interpersonal dynamic, it has it’s proper and balanced place in the work environment. I’d like to highlight two virtues that help people navigate the vices of legalism and license. Our first and most important virtueContinueContinue reading “Art of Being Effective: Confronting Confrontation”
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The Art of Being Effective: Narrowband Listening
People have a singular propensity to place complete confidence in their own brilliance and clarity of understanding. I recently experienced an example of this a few a few months ago. I was in attendance at an onboarding for a strategic project. The project could be considered similar in scope to IBM’s decision to divest themselves of their hardware business and bet billionsContinueContinue reading “The Art of Being Effective: Narrowband Listening”
Art of Being Effective: Cyclone of Assistance
Hegel is famous for one thing in particular, and that is the concept that history represents a progressive combination of diverse viewpoints as the Truth or Absolute slowly comes into focus. Who knows what the hell that means, but the short version of most interpretations on this is that Philosophies and Ideas slowly become moreContinueContinue reading “Art of Being Effective: Cyclone of Assistance”
Return on Intelligence 