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Psychology of Time – The Impact on Your Orientation

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Zimbardo and colleagues are interested especially in temporal biases in which these learned cognitive categories are not “balanced&# according to situations, contexts and demands, but one or another are utilized excessively or underutilized. About the Author As President and Co-founder of ACI Telecentrics, Inc.,

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Three Stops On The Search For Meaning

Lead Change Blog

Ever wonder why this small book about a psychotherapy model is so popular with leaders, managers, and others who deal with normal people, rather than with those who suffer psychologically? Frankl hit on this theme long before Philip Zimbardo divided his test subjects into guards and prisoners and discovered how easily we fall into our roles.

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Maintaining Physical, Social and Mental Fitness for Peak Performance

Harvard Business Review

As a leader responsible for developing leaders, I find this notion of leveraging energy for improved results intriguing. According to psychologist Philip Zimbardo and colleagues, social fitness refers to an individual's ability to speak and act on ones values in the face of situational pressure. We are inherently social beings.

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Ethics for Technologists (and Facebook)

Harvard Business Review

The ongoing explosion of technologically-enabled business opportunities inherently expand the ethical dilemmas, quandaries and trade-offs managements will confront. Everyone online can—if they want to make the effort—become an amateur Asch , Skinner , Zimbardo , Pavlov , Ariely , Kahneman and/or Vernon Smith.

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