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A quick message from an executive coach on how to get value from your anger.
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A quick message from an executive coach on shifting one frequently-used word can shift your entire life.
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A quick message on, “Why the words we choose matter so much to our success and satisfaction.”
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A quick message from an executive coach on shifting one frequently used word can shift your entire life.
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A quick message from an executive coach on how to use your anger productively.
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This short podcast describes an important step in the growth of business owners and other leaders, moving beyond the urge to control and micro-manage every action toward acting with confidence in your team and your own ability to respond to every eventuality.
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Watch me lob a softball question to Steven Pinker at the Mercatus Center. I come in after just a few seconds…
[J. L. Austin speech acts, John Searle social world, Whorf hypothesis]
“Give as few orders as possible,” his father Duke Leto had told him… once… long ago. “Once you’ve given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.”
—Dune by Frank Herbert
p. 628 Penguin Publishing Group
Too many jobs are perfectly constructed to elicit inhumane behavior. Read my book to learn how it got this way.
The most fundamental lesson of our study:
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.
Even when asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.
—Professor Stanley Milgram, PhD
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View
Perennial Classics 2009 p. 6.
Professor Milgram was responsible for two psychological studies that became well-known by the general public while having almost no positive influence on government or corporate structures, the “administer a painful shock” compliance experiment and the “Small World” six degrees of separation demonstration.
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