Thanks for returning! I have a Facebook Fan page and Twitter account that you may be interested in too.Today’s post is a guest blog post from my friend and ETG user Christina Ciani. She just wrote a book called “F Bombs 4 Single Moms” which is a really upbeat and enthusiastic (like her) approach to single motherhood. [...]
Archive for category Optimal Performance
Why Commit to What you Want?
Apr 29
There’s nothing wrong with wanting the best from life, whether it be a top paying job, a perfect GPA or a massively successful business. What happens when we expect too much from ourselves though? In other words, if we set the bar so high that we accept nothing but incredible success aren’t we setting ourselves [...]
Do you know what it takes to get an idea to stick? In part 1 of this series I discussed the first 3 of 6 critical elements that Chip and Dan Heath mentioned in their book Made to Stick. To recap, they state that viral and long lasting ideas have common elements. Irregardless of where, [...]
I just started reading the book Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath which is about why some ideas take off and others don’t. It’s actually blowing me away. The thought of making an idea stick is not just for advertising people but it should be on the minds of anyone trying to get [...]
I suppose I expect a lot from the CEO’s of large corporations (especially successful and innovative ones). I expect them to be very intelligent, great evangelists for their products and along with that great public speakers. Just for fun I thought I would examine the public speaking skills of two of the most well known [...]
How to Deal with Slackers
Mar 22
Ok first of all I’m going to tell you that I watch Celebrity Apprentice (don’t judge me!). Second of all I’m going to tell you that while the show is a farce there are many interesting groupdynamics that come up every week. Case in point, last week the teams had to build a showcase for [...]
I sometimes fall into this rut of doing the same thing everyday and finding that time slips by. This leads to feelings of boredom and just a general lack of drive. One solution that I come back to time and again is re-visiting my vision for my life and work (notice I said life before [...]
I was thinking recently that getting people to change their behaviour is very difficult. This is especially true the longer we have been doing the same thing over and over. Breaking routines, even sub-optimal ones (which waste time & energy) is hard to do. So if someone comes up to you and says, “Will you [...]
Today’s blog post is from Boris Fowler, co-founder of education reform blog Crayons to Diplomas and ASU university student. He has some great points on starting a business. I wish I had this frame of when I was a student! If you’re interested in learning more about his blog I will be interviewing him next [...]
Today’s article is a guest post from ETG user Jeremy Jones. He says he’s starting to use Enter The Group as a tool to collaborate with people he coaches and trains all over the USA. He’s still new to the site but says he’s impressed with it and is looking forward to using it more. OK and [...]
I’ve been in a lot of meetings – some of them for work, some for volunteering and some for social purposes. I was at a meeting last night and while it was run well there were some things that came to mind about making meetings better and using technology to do so. There are a [...]
Conformity in Groups
Dec 30
This is a great video on the impact of conformity in groups. For anyone who has taken a few courses in Psychology this may be a review, but irregardless it’s very fascinating. Numerous studies have shown that people will try to conform to ‘group think’ especially when their opinion conflicts with everyone else’s. This is [...]
We’ve all run into people who are very intense and in your face all the time.If they’re just acquaintances we can choose to ignore them, but if we have to work closely with them it can be a nightmare. In the 1950’s Doctors Friedman and Rosenman created a theory of personality ‘types’. The types they [...]
We all know that group projects can be risky. There’s always the risk that someone won’t come through on some work they were expected to do. There’s also the risk that group members may act in a way that’s not conducive to getting your project done efficiently. In other words they may act like jerks [...]
Einstein said ‘Never memorize what you can look up in books’, so why do we focus so much on what we learn as opposed to how we learn? I don’t believe that the objective of education should be the memorization of facts. Instead it should be focused on the acquisition of useful skills. In effect [...]
The emergence of the internet has given people the opportunity to become as visible as they want to be. Visibility means people can spill their guts and reveal themselves in so many new ways. We can post our opinions on blogs, update our ‘status’ as often as we want on Facebook, Tweet about things we [...]
They say if you give a man a fish you’ve fed him for a day, but if you teach him how to fish then you’ve fed him forever. So why don’t we apply this logic in the classroom? In other words why don’t we teach students (of all ages) how to start a business of [...]
Failure @ Harvard
Feb 9
In life we tend to study only successful people, companies, governments and so on. Even when we study the lives of these “successes” we tend to gloss over their mistakes, indiscretions and failures. Take for example, Abraham Lincoln who is considered one of America’s greatest presidents. He had a number of failures on his road [...]
I don’t know about you, but I am the type of person that likes to get things quickly and not spend a lot of time debating or arguing. Case in point, whenever I go shopping I tend to buy things quickly with the goal of getting out of the store as soon as possible. This [...]
What is ‘Leadership’ really?
Dec 20
I just read an article from Forbes.com which discusses the new Center for Leadership at Dartmouth’s business school. The idea is that leadership can be taught and that an important component of leadership is knowing yourself. If you don’t know yourself, how will you know your strengths and weaknesses? Furthermore, how will you know your [...]
