The Recovering Engineer

MAY 22, 2010

May 22, 2010 by Guy Harris Filed under Communication Skills , DISC Model , Video Leave a Comment Guy Answers the Question: Is Changing Your Behavior Phoney? In answering this question, I often refer to a Thomas Jefferson quote: In matters of style, swim with the current. DISC Model FAQ’s: Is Changing Your Behavior Phoney?

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FAQ Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Engineering 102

The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 31, 2010

March 31, 2010 by Guy Harris Filed under DISC Model , Video 3 Comments Guy Answers the Question: Can Four Styles Really Describe Everyone? I can, though, use four basic style descriptors to create a frame of reference that allows me to understand them better when we interact.&# To which, I reply: “You’re right.

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FAQ Letter Engineering Video 114

Building Personal Strength

MARCH 16, 2010

This common observation refers to something people like to call "muscle memory." When you repeat the activity over and over, neurotransmitter chemicals stimulate the brain cells related to the activity to grow dendrites, which are filaments on the brain cell, to reach out and connect with the other brain cells involved.

Chemicals 111

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Women in the LEAD

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

  In her book, The Female Brain, Louann Brizendine cites very specific chemical and hormonal differences between men and women that specifically affect language and communication, giving us a scientific basis for this.   In the past twenty years or so, we have read many works telling us what we already knew.

Leadership 40

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Women in the LEAD

AUGUST 25, 2009

  In her book, The Female Brain, Louann Brizendine cites very specific chemical and hormonal differences between men and women that specifically affect language and communication, giving us a scientific basis for this.     In the past twenty years or so, we have read many works telling us what we already knew.

Leadership 40

Leadership Letter Taylorism Taylor 40

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

It contains interviews with labor economists of that era and refers to a study on the subject commissioned by the Kennedy White House. Yet, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 4 million people earned their living working with computers in 2010. One magazine I particularly like is the July 19, 1963 issue of Life.

Intellectual Capital 8

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