Every now and then someone launches a new ‘personal development’ product that is based on providing people with a fairly profound (usually physical) experience, and then getting them to relate it to the ways in which they go through life.… Continue reading
Last week’s 10th Annual Conference of Corporate Governance (#wccg09), explored alternative, hopefully more effective, means of corporate governance. What emerged clearly from the presentations and the discussion was that our current approaches to governance miss the mark. They are targeted… Continue reading
Wow, I just received a sharp rebuttal for an article I wrote about writing to build your counselling/psychotherapy practice. The individual wanted me to know that she was ‘outraged’ that I had implied that marketing advice was a part of… Continue reading
Reading Neil Oliver’s “Amazing tales for making men out of boys“, published in 2008, has set me off on a reflective trail of current leadership wisdom. Corporate and political leadership, especially, have come under the cosh a great deal lately,… Continue reading
Around this time, each year, many of us take time out to do a little reflecting and setting ourselves some hopes and expectations for the following year. This time last year, I posted a blog entry on how to stick… Continue reading
There are a couple of schools of thought among the marketers of professional services. On the one hand, there are those who believe that professionals sell themselves – well, the relationship with them – and the warm experience that doing… Continue reading
At some time in the late 1970s, a well known TV scientist put forward the idea that there was a certain level of stress that was optimal for performance. He had no evidence to support this ‘claim’ but asserted it… Continue reading
Thorndike, in 1920, divided intelligence into three facets; understanding and managing ideas (abstract intelligence), concrete objects (mechanical intelligence), and people (social intelligence). In his words: “By social intelligence is meant the ability to understand and manage men and women, boys… Continue reading
I don’t like the term ‘emotional intelligence’, or EQ, for several reasons; it is only one aspect of a more substantial area of psychology – social intelligence – that has been around since the 1920s; it is a cleverly marketed… Continue reading
There’s more to success than manipulating peoples’ emotions. The idea of emotional intelligence seems to have pervaded business thinking since the book on the topic by Daniel Goleman was published in 1995. The first use of the term is usually… Continue reading
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