Leadership, Cialdini - Weapons of Influence, Public Speaking
When I was 11 years old, I saw a speech by 80’s-era motivational speaker Joe Charbonneau. I thought it was the coolest thing ever, and from that day forward wanted to be a public speaker of some kind. That star faded a little bit as I got older, and I could peek...
Advertising and Marketing, Leadership
Anyone can talk a good game about emotional intelligence. But when they pass away, and the line for their wake goes out the door and around the building, it’s a sign that they knew a little something about the subject. Mike Muldoon was a marketer, corporate...
Leadership, Social Psychology
Capital managers have always viewed companies as collections of assets rather than employees, but over the last 30 years, this mentality has become an unfortunate, unquestioned part of our mainstream culture. The viewpoint didn’t really become real for me until...
Leadership, Social Psychology
Swarm Intelligence, or Swarm Theory, is the collective behavior of decentralized, self-organizing systems: ants in a colony, movie raters at Rotten Tomatoes, participants in a market economy, etc. By observing these systems in nature, scientists have theorized that...
Leadership, Social Psychology
“Edwin Land once told me that those people who can stand at the intersection of the humanities and science…are the people who can change the world.” –Walter Isaacson quoting Steve Jobs “I am here to stop your heart…. I am here to make you...
