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Have you lost your inner pirate?(0)
A personal take on some recent news items.
For caffeine addicts everywhere – yes, yes, yes. Caffeine has been found to improve short-term memory, and keep us going longer (who needs the lame Energizer bunny) oh, they do say it makes us more open to persuasion.
Do you work in Bursts? A new book by the author [...]
Do you know what people are saying about you?
Spot the link. Toyota; Tiger Woods; JetBlue; basketball superstar Kobe Bryant; Goldman Sachs; and the SEC. These are just some of the more high profile names caught up in scandals impacting their brand. In a recent edition of the Economist, the reporter Schumpeter describes the growing number of companies that spend time in ‘brand rehab’. [...]
Put the touch back in touchy-feely
Want to know how to create a high performance team – start slapping heads and touching one-another. Now before you all get HR violations a word of caution. The research that promoted this finding counted the number of ‘celebratory contacts’ such as fist bumps and head slaps that occurred during the 2008-2009 NBA season. They [...]
Want to make better business decisions? Go wash your hands
Recent research published in the magazine Science reports that washing ones hands after making a decision reduces cognitive dissonance or stress. The act of washing is said to ‘wipe the slate clean’ and make people feel better about the choices they may have ignored. The catch? There had to be one didn’t there. Whilst washing [...]
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