Archive for the 'Vision and Goal Setting' Category
This is intended as a checklist to start any personal or corporate change project. Just take a blank sheet/ screen and start answering the following: Initial planning questions: 1. What are you trying to change? 2. Who is involved in the change? 2.1. Do they want to change? 2.2. What do they need to change? [...]
Filed under: Action Orientation, Change, Focus, Strategy, Time Management, Vision and Goal Setting | 1 Comment
Tags: Change management, Planning, Toolbox
Strategy as Stress Survival
Nearly thirty years ago the Thomsons sold out of print newspapers, selling The Times and The Sunday Times to Murdoch. In 2007 they sold their college textbooks arm for a $2bn premium, making an offer for Reuters with the proceeds in the same month Murdoch increased its newspapers exposure with its bid for Dow Jones. [...]
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Tags: Business, Paranoia, Strategy, Stress
The phenomenal self model (PSM) is ‘the conscious model of the organism as a whole that is activated by the brain’. Thomas Metzinger’s ‘The Ego Tunnel – the Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self’ refers to it as ‘probably one of nature’s best inventions’ ‘Whenever our brains successfully pursue the ingenious [...]
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Tags: Vision, Neuroscience, Ego Tunnel, Metzinger, Philosophy
Pay Attention to Your Attention
The Hawthorne effect refers to a study in 1924 on the effects of the changes in working conditions (lighting/ cleanliness etc.) on the productivity of a set of factory workers. One potential conclusion from the study was that the biggest impact on productivity was the act of being studied. Productivity slumped whenever the studies concluded. Joe Griffin [...]
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Tags: Attention, Learning, Shah
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