Rich Gee Group

APRIL 22, 2016

6½ years later, I have 700 small peeks into the wacky & wild world of Rich Gee. I want constructive criticism — please tell me what I can do to make my writing even BETTER. If you subtract weekends, you get approximately 260 working days each year (no holidays or my 6 weeks vacation time). How am I doing?

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Building Personal Strength

JANUARY 13, 2012

Girl gone wild. It's because during adolescence the part of the brain involved in logical decision-making is "under construction." A problem, because while that area is under construction, it's hard to use it. Kristina Lowe's Facebook photo 1. Underage drinking. Attempting to leave the party, she backed into a tree.

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Building Personal Strength

MARCH 27, 2011

It's one of those 'Girls Gone Wild' videos. The conversation just popped into my brain intact when I saw one of those "Girls Gone Wild" video commercials on a cable channel. How often did she participate in wild parties like this? Kids need to sow some wild oats, get it out of their system. They appeared to be drunk.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Are you constructive? Your mindset determines whether you have the wind at your back or. face headwinds that hold you back. The Sky Is the Limit. We all compare ourselves to others. But the way that we compare ourselves varies wildly. Some folks say, “If they can do it, so can I.” They try to emulate the behavior of successful people.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

He simplified the design and construction of the automobile, narrowed the choices available (“any color you want, so long as it’s black”) and marketed it toward what we would today call the “down market.” I MAGINE that this is your situation: Your young company is a raging success.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Done intentionally and constructively, not self-destructively, giving your actions one last loving look before moving forward is a good thing—for you, your colleagues, company, community, and workplace culture. Go ahead—second guess yourself. That thoughtful pause can assure you’re not leaving discrimination in your wake. “No

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

So prepare yourself for a wild ride. Be prepared for rejection and criticism —and learn how to use it constructively to improve your business. Be prepared to put in the hard work if you want to be successful. There’s no such thing as an overnight success—even if that looks to be the case. It’s a long journey that isn’t always uphill.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 30, 2015

Our minds fill in the blanks when information is lacking; new realities that employees begin to construct might be built on the wrong foundation. Involve Them in the Construction of Change. Frequent updates throughout the process of change, even when everything isn’t known, can go a long way to defusing fear. Equip Them for Change.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

” — Oscar Wilde. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.” “One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.” “Appreciate the constructive; ignore the destructive.”

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 23, 2018

Social humor is practiced as part of the IDEO design thinking process that “encourages wild ideas” to take root. This is followed by a fiery discussion that can last up to two hours, unlocking provocative suggestions and constructive criticism.

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Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 21, 2011

I recently enjoyed two excellent movies about perfectly normal teenage girls and the tragedies that can happen when their "under construction" prefrontal cortex fails them and their emotions spin out of control. Trust" (2010) stars Clive Owen as the frustrated father whose teen daughter is seduced online by a 35-year-old man. Coates, Ph.D.,

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Strategy Driven

MAY 26, 2016

Truth: our brains have constructed unconscious, subjective filters (biases, assumptions, triggers) over the course of our entire lifetimes, making it highly improbable to accurately hear some percentage of what others mean to convey (percentages vary according to how far they are from our own subjective biases). There are two issues here.

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Building Personal Strength

MAY 23, 2011

The part of the brain that handles critical judgment is "under construction," and kids can do crazy things, which have consequences. Her father was a simple working class man who had two jobs and a small business constructing pallets in the back yard. Adolescence can be a turbulent time. Here's Part One of her teen journey story.

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Building Personal Strength

JANUARY 4, 2012

Teens are famous for doing wild and crazy things without thinking about the consequences. Of course one of the reasons for this behavior is that they're experimenting and exploring their independence at a time when the decision-making part of their brain is "under construction." They're also particularly vulnerable to peer pressure.

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 27, 2012

Ok, so you've heard of the construct whereby you compare two things by using on one hand vs the other hand. Study 5 - Let your imagination run wild. Sounds to good to be true, but some new research suggests it may well be possible. Study 1 - on one hand. This is used to allow us mentally to see a problem from different sides.

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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Significantly, the prefrontal cortex, which is the "smart" part of the brain, involved in analysis, reasoning, foreseeing consequences, problem solving, conceptual thinking, planning and self-management, is "under construction" throughout adolescence. And guess what.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 28, 2019

That approach may work in construction but it doesn’t in communications. You’re probably familiar with the saying that if you’re good with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. To be an effective communicator you need to custom-fit your approach by being outcome-oriented and audience specific.

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Building Personal Strength

MAY 4, 2011

Like every teenager who ever lived, my pre-frontal cortex, which is the part of the brain that handles foresight, logic and critical thinking, was "under construction." Kids do wild and crazy things for no good reason. I made a lot of my decisions impulsively based on emotion. And that's one of the perils of the teen journey.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2015

You have to understand who you are, know what you’re capable of and what you’re not, and then try to construct a game — or a deal or a campaign — in which your superior qualities will be factors and your disadvantages will not be displayed.” Something that works for you may be counterproductive for me.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

Indeed, the road to clarity always seems to be under construction. It was Oscar Wilde who said, “ When you assume, you make an ass out of U and Me” . Even if we try to simplify our communication processes, barriers come up that can sabotage the message and render it ineffective by the time it gets to those who must act on it.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 27, 2013

Indeed, the road to clarity always seems to be under construction. It was Oscar Wilde who said, “ When you assume, you make an ass out of U and Me” . Even if we try to simplify our communication processes, barriers come up that can sabotage the message and render it ineffective by the time it gets to those who must act on it.

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Building Personal Strength

MARCH 13, 2012

My imagination goes wild sometimes. The part of their brain that handles comprehension, judgment and decision-making is "under construction," so they don't always think before they act. It's the worst thing that can happen to a father. Bad luck of monumental proportions. Then he thought, Maybe it wasn't bad luck.

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Building Personal Strength

MAY 8, 2011

On a lark she would sometimes do wild and crazy things, and Rick would confront her with her irresponsibility. This is the last area of the brain to develop, and during adolescence it is "under construction." Why didn't she conclude that it wasn't worth risking the life of her baby daughter? Rick couldn't get past these questions.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

“Leadership is the ability to establish standards and manage a creative climate where people are self-motivated toward the mastery of long-term constructive goals, in a participatory environment of mutual respect, compatible with personal values.” .” –Frances Hesselbein. ” –Mike Vance.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

The longer version is that an intentional leader revolutionized the academic institution of High Point University with powerful and practical business principles, which often received sharp criticism but ultimately proved to be wildly successful. It turns out that academia, like most professions and industries, values the status quo. .

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

I view machine learning as any data-driven approach to explanations, classifications, and predictions that uses automation to construct a model. The computer constructing the model “learns” during the construction process what model best fits the data. They may also need to work with some new tools.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

We constructed a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of 429 U.S. The primary benefit of this dataset is that it allows us to construct measures across a diverse set of companies based on actual employee beliefs about their employer. The actual purpose of the company can differ wildly across companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Keeping up the grand new tradition of wild swings in both expert and public opinion about the state of the US economy, we balance the widespread despair of the latest jobs report with this glass-half-full analysis from Oxford Analytica. Sounds a bit like a variation on the "local positivity bias" Slate's Matthew Yglesias wrote about recently.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2014

He uses more constructive versions of that sentiment that emphasize the possible, such as “I could if I…” He actually promises to pay his young students a $100 if they ever catch him saying, “I can’t.”. In his programs, Jim emphasizes the power of a positive vocabulary. And he leads by example.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2012

Provides constructive feedback and generous appreciation in their online comments, replies, and other online communications. Or it might be a sign that we are all too real online, liberated to be our real selves by the remove or anonymity of online communications.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Their working definitions range from the simple (“discretionary effort”) to the mind-bending (“complex nomological network encompassing trait, state, and behavioral constructs”). Academics, consultants, and leaders have been grappling with that question for decades.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

As we are faced with interim failures in our innovation process, the narrative we construct is key. There's the plucky Henry Ford quotation which admittedly, and almost embarrassingly, I have used: "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." It's also why I like this quote from J.K.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2017

In 2000, British Airways sponsored the construction of the London Eye, a giant Ferris wheel in the heart of London. And when you find trash-talking in your workplace, you should make sure the competitive flames fueled by trash-talking do not get fanned into flames that go wild. Afanasia/iStock.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

As we are faced with interim failures in our innovation process, the narrative we construct is key. There's the plucky Henry Ford quotation which admittedly, and almost embarrassingly, I have used: "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." It's also why I like this quote from J.K.

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Ries Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 19

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Seeing your work in the wild and powering a business, which is of course a group of people, is very rewarding.” In addition to providing freelancers with positive and constructive input on their performance, managers should also check in about the freelancer’s satisfaction with the project and the team.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Encouraging rigorous, constructive debate is indispensable to navigating challenges of high uncertainty, from extending the bounds of knowledge to scaling a business. He embodies the cognitive diversity of SFI, having made seminal contributions to fields as disparate as genetics, microbiology, human history, and society.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Raw capitalism becomes brutal and wild when it escapes the taming confines that have been constructed by developed governments. But it is hard to imagine any society that would explicitly condone these deaths by fire — human beings burned to give us cheaper clothing.

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