Why is it that smart people still do stupid things? One of the reasons is a little known thinking fallacy, which is called the Dunning–Kruger effect. This is ‘a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly […]
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My favorite scene of the Saturday Night Live show is ‘More Cowbell.’ In this sketch we see a live studio recording of a famous Blue Oyster Cult song, including a disruptive ‘cowbell’ player. Finally the studio director steps in. To […]
You have been invited to give a TED talk or want to give a TED-like presentation to surprise your audience. Now what? A single pebble thrown in the ocean will change the shoreline: TED talks can catalyze ideas, accelerate learning […]
You will never get the new results you want from the existing behaviors that you like. Stretching yourself is therefore essential to get ahead in (corporate) life. But this is only part of the story. The reason is that it […]
Why is that the same speech can get standing ovations by a raving crowd and only invokes polite applause when delivered to a different group of people? It might have something to do with the fact that you simply fail […]
‘Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.’ This quote from Einstein is a stark reminder that it is our job […]
Nature is unbalanced. In other words, input (effort) and output (results) are not equally distributed. This means that the majority of our results come from a minority of activities. We know this phenomenon by the name 80/20 rule or the […]
The ability to lead others, starts with the ability to lead yourself. And leading yourself begins with accurate thinking. In my work with High Performance individuals, teams and organizations, I have found that the following 5 principles unlock the vault […]
When people face difficult times, they tend to do one of two things: they either do more of the same things, or less of the same things. Very few will do different things instead. These people are invariably the ones […]
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