It is time to kick “single-bucket” thinking!
We have a dilemma in many, if not, most business conversations. I’d describe the dilemma as the paradigm of “single-bucket thinking” when what is needed is “multiple-bucket thinking…
A mindful approach to improving the people-business dynamic informed by neuroscience, curiosity and challenging the status quo.
“The Re-Think” — how a values shift is creating a race for relevance
In the book Consumer Shift: How Changing Values Are Reshaping the Consumer Landscape, author Andy Hines provides one of the most comprehensive descriptions of what may be happening in the consumer landscape…
- January 20, 2012
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- Human Potential, Andy Hines, Consumer Shift, Maslow, The Re-Think, Values
In Memory of Paul Lawrence, Renowned Scholar & Teacher
If you look at the word cloud for this blog, you will see that the biggest name of all is Paul Lawrence. That is because Paul Lawrence was more than a scholar to The Maritz Institute, he was our teacher…
- November 29, 2011
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- Leadership, Harvard Business School, Paul Lawrence; Driven to Lead; Driven
Perspective-taking is the Key to Good Humans and Good Business
The ability to entertain the perspective of another has long been recognized as a critical ingredient in proper social functioning. Piaget marked the ability to shift perspectives as a major developmental breakthrough in cognitive functioning, and Kolhberg recognized its importance in his classification of moral reasoning. Batson noted that the presence of perspective-taking can inspire great gestures of altruism, and its absence can incite the devastations of social aggression. — Edited from Adam Galinsky
The Maritz Institute Network has been studying perspective-taking over the past couple of months with the help of Emily Falk, a neuroscientist who works with the University of Michigan. Emily has introduced…
The Riddle of Experience vs. Memory
Daniel Kahneman describes the science behind memories. First, and foremost, he emphasizes that the experiencing self is not the same as the remembering self. Most of what we experience, we do not …
- October 28, 2011
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