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The Einstellung Effect: Unlocking Your Potential To Deliver Breakthrough Success

Rich Gee Group

The 4-Minute Mile Roger Bannister, the first person to run a mile in under four minutes, is a classic example of overcoming mental barriers and the Einstellung Effect. Here are a few action items to help you overcome the Einstellung Effect: Embrace Diverse Perspectives. Cultivate a Growth Mindset. Engage in Continuous Learning.

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Highlights – 27 March

Chartered Management Institute

Beyond Buzzwords, a report into equality, diversity and inclusion by CMI in partnership with the Young Foundation and other professional bodies, was referenced in IOSH Magazine. The report lays out a series of recommendations on how to approach this important facet of modern management more systematically. Book your spot. Why not share it.

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Resources & Handouts from my #ASTD2011 Talk

Management Craft

The talk is about how to create a workplace environment where learning and collaboration happen between diverse people and teams (I call it multi-directional learning). I recommend checking out Psychologist Carl Rogers, "The Concept of a Fully Functioning Person." Find it here. And here is a PDF of my talk slides.

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Listening Is Critical in Today's Multicultural Workplace

Harvard Business Review

To compound matters, the diversity of today's workforce only makes listening more difficult. Janet Reid, a multicultural expert and managing partner of Global Novations , which does corporate diversity consulting, describes it as listening to connect with a person's feelings and thoughts. It's not so much that we have poor memories.

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How to Raise Sensitive Issues During a Virtual Meeting

Harvard Business Review

The longer issues go unaddressed, the higher the price you pay in trust, engagement, decision making, productivity, quality, safety, diversity — you name it. Roger Schwarz. This, of course, was not good for the team or the company. You and Your Team Series. The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track.

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How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve

Harvard Business Review

Obama also mentioned Donald Kohn (PhD, Michigan, and a career at the Fed) as a possibility, and the name of Roger Ferguson (PhD, Harvard, and a private sector career plus a past stint as Fed vice chairman) came up a few times in journalists’ speculations. pretty much ever since. I doubt that a practiced loan officer could have done better.”

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The Embarrassment of Complexity

Harvard Business Review

Roger Martin recently diagnosed a kind of complexity that is manufactured by us and largely unaddressed: inter-domain complexity. Don’t get me wrong: of course, indicators, curves, algorithms, and the analyses based on them are vital. But all must still be interpreted.

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