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Yesterday I had the privilege of being interviewed by Dave Thackeray of Inspiradio. His show focuses on inspiring stories from entrepreneurs and anyone really doing something to make a difference. You can listen to the show on the net or download it via iTunes (for free). We discussed the origins of Enterthegroup.com and how it can [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
I’m not sure how I discovered Pando Projects (maybe it was the countless hours of net surfing I do), but I was intrigued by the idea of an organization which helps people establish their own charitable initiatives. I was also intrigued by the founder, Milena Arciszewski. She’s a lovely young lady who left a career [...]
How to Write “Real Good”
Feb 9
Like it or not we are constantly judged by our writing skills. Whether we are writing a term paper for a class or research report for our boss, the quality of our work will be determined in part by the quality of our writing. This may not be fair, but there is something we can [...]
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 [...]
After a lot of revisions and hard work the beta version of the site is ready! The updated version of the site has a completely re-designed look and is far easier on the eyes. We have also fixed some of the minor bugs we encountered in the alpha version. Here is our press release that [...]
I’m a very selective procrastinator. I only procrastinate with things I don’t want to do! Seriously though, we all have things we procrastinate with. (Why is it a called ‘pro’ anyway? There’s nothing ‘pro’ about it). I always wonder how people motivate themselves to do things that they’d rather not do. For me personally there [...]
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 [...]
A Vision of Students Today
Nov 29
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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 [...]
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 [...]
When I was in school I never considered my group assignments as ‘projects’. Instead I looked at them as the same type of work I had done before, but now shared with other people. In fact I never really knew what project management was until after I graduated from business school. I realize now that [...]
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 [...]
Here’s an interesting result from a scientific study – self-control (or lack of it) is infectious! In other words, these studies found that when we affiliate ourselves with people who have a lot (or little) self-control it affects our life decisions. Maybe this isn’t so shocking after all since we know that group think is [...]
