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...
Advertising and Marketing, Social Psychology, Stress and Pressure
It turns out that when you’re feeling emotionally or mentally “drained,” you’re more right on with your wording than you know. You are actually losing real energy, in the form of blood glucose stored (in finite quantities) in the brain. Now,...
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...
Social Psychology, Stress and Pressure
“Traders and rodents…seem to have something in common.” –The Economist If you’re in the current cool-crowd of psychology, you are probably a cognitive psychologist. Interest in, and funding for, cognitive psychology has greatly increased...
