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Best Practice: Stories to Encourage Good, Avoid Evil

Michael Lee Stallard

Check out this outstanding TED video of Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo speaking on the topic of how culture encourages or discourages evil. This is a best practice to strengthen the positive effects of an organization’s identity (i.e. mission, values and reputation).

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Psychology of Time – The Impact on Your Orientation

CO2

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. Take a look at [link] – I’d appreciate your feedback. The report looks very helpful.

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Three Stops On The Search For Meaning

Lead Change Blog

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. The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

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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

Everyone online can—if they want to make the effort—become an amateur Asch , Skinner , Zimbardo , Pavlov , Ariely , Kahneman and/or Vernon Smith. Indeed, as I’ve mentioned elsewhere , the Internet is the greatest research, development and experimentation medium in the history of mankind.

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