Creating a Reality That Doesn’t Exist
Aug 3 Carolann Jacobs on August 3rd, 2010
As humans, we make sense of our world through story. In other words, we create a reality for ourselves that doesn’t exist, in reality. I attended a workshop last weekend with Human Change Technology Expert, S. Lane Pierce, and he cited Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi the author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience who theorizes that [...]
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Is Humiliation a Leadership Tool?
Jul 30 Carolann Jacobs on July 30th, 2010
When I first got my Saint Bernard, Ponca, the biggest behavioral challenge we had was that she beat the other two dogs up. Bloodfang and Knight, the existing members of Team Dog, didn’t understand her boundaries and rules because their rules were different. One rule on Team Dog was that water is an infinite, shared [...]
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You Couldn’t Pay Me Enough to Do This Job
Jul 22 Carolann Jacobs on July 22nd, 2010
Update: Col. McCraw from DPS did respond to my email. The short version is that the mental and physical demands tend to weed out a portion of the new hires, and they are studying other reasons why trainees leave in the first year. I was watching a news story the other night about Texas DPS. [...]
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How Powerpoint Dumbs Down Your Organization
Jul 20 Carolann Jacobs on July 20th, 2010
Powerpoint doesn’t kill brain cells…. people kill brain cells. Much like a gun and its ability to harm, Powerpoint provides a very effective method for making people stupid. Here’s why – it provides the means and mechanism for dumping (some might call it vomiting) lists of facts (bullet points) all over the audience. This is [...]
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Can’t Stand Working With That Jerk
Jul 15 Carolann Jacobs on July 15th, 2010
As a managewhich, one of the more frustrating challenges is dealing with people who do not play nicely together in the sandbox. Most of managewhich’s deal with it in one of three very ineffective ways: Ignore it, and hope it goes away. Do their best to separate them, so that there is minimal disruption [...]
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Afraid for your Livelihood? Now’s not the time to hunker down.
Jul 13 Carolann Jacobs on July 13th, 2010
This could also be titled Playing to Win vs. Playing Not to Lose. What tends to happen in frightening circumstances is that we pull in, physically and mentally. We play not to lose. Making decisions out of fear is the hallmark. Many times, we know these decisions aren’t good ones, but we make and [...]
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Life by Design vs Life By Default
Jul 8 Carolann Jacobs on July 8th, 2010
Living the Success Principles #4 Principle #3 in Jack Canfield’s The Success Principles is “Decide What You Want.” This, folks, is your vision. What do you want to be, do and have? My corollary on that is “Who do you want to be?” or maybe it’s “Who do you have to be to do and [...]
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Escape the Drama Triangle
Jul 1 Carolann Jacobs on July 1st, 2010
Have you guys ever noticed how a lot of what I yap about here on the blog about business really translates back to life? If you haven’t noticed, then I want to highlight the point today. One of the books on my shelf is The Power of TED (again, thank you Ken Abrams for turning [...]
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I’m not a Mule, and Get that Carrot Out of my Face!
Jun 9 Carolann Jacobs on June 9th, 2010
I love this short video by Dan Pink about what motivates us. As someone who’s mission is to create inspired workplaces, I think this says a lot about why traditional forms of performance management don’t work. I attended that Dallas Drucker Society meeting last night, and one of the participants was talking about hiring a [...]
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How to Shut Screaming Mimi Up
May 20 Carolann Jacobs on May 20th, 2010
Article #2 in the series “The Dirty Dozen of Bad Bosses” Screaming Mimi costs the company more than she’s worth. She’s needy, fickle, and stubborn, and her peers and subordinates never know when she’s going to throw a tantrum… and she’s still your boss. As tempting and as justified as you may feel to [...]
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