Advertising and Marketing, Leadership
In my most recent MBA class on leadership, we covered generational differences. We learned that there are certain workplace-related traits that can be ascribed to Baby Boomers, for example, that is not a part of the Gen-X or Gen-Y experience. As a leader, one may...
Advertising and Marketing, Public Speaking
This comes from a book that my friend clued me into, called Winning Body Language, by Mark Bowden. One of his chapters talks about using body language to take advantage of the way our minds deal with predictability and interruption. Pattern interruption is a...
Advertising and Marketing, Acting and Performance, Johnstone - Status Transactions, Status and Prestige
We Are All Just Squabbling Ducks Previously, I have remarked on an area of interpersonal dynamics called the Status Transaction. This concept comes from one of the fathers of improv theatre. It says that humans, just like other pack animals, communicate in subtle...
Advertising and Marketing, Acting and Performance, Cialdini - Weapons of Influence, Status and Prestige
Why Is it that you always seem to be wanting what you can’t have? I was walking a friend of mine home the other day, and she was telling me about the kinds of men she had been meeting recently. We started talking about it always seems you’re wanting what...
Advertising and Marketing
Some fascinating information coming from Psyblog this week on the effectiveness of persuasion. In an entry called, “The Third Person Effect,” Psyblog author and University College researcher Jeremy Dean shows us how we are not as invulnerable to...
Advertising and Marketing, Johnstone - Status Transactions
I’ve wanted to write this article for a long time, but it took me finding a brilliant essay called “The Rise of the Caring Industry,” by Ronald W. Dworkin, to fill in the last piece of the puzzle. I’m a great fan of the show Mad Men, in part...
