Studies into the characteristics of highly effective leaders find that ‘vision’ is usually at the top of the list of characteristics. Any individual moving others to sustained and purposeful action would need to be future-facing, goal-setting and inspirational. All that requires an ‘eye on the prize’. There are many leadership phrases using eye-imagery. I’d like […]
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Sitting is as bad as smoking, Poor movement can be a sign of potential health issues, Exercise is not as important as having activity as part of your everyday life. “I believe that the good lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I’m damned if I’m going to use mine running up and […]
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The halo effect is a cognitive bias where one trait influences our general perception of other traits of that person or object. Remember, right at the start of the book I mentioned that interesting-but-useless study showing that people with asymmetrical faces make better leaders? Symmetrical faces are seen as better looking. Here’s where the halo […]
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Duke University’s basketball team does consistently well and its small gym is always sold out. They have a bizarre but traditional system for fairly rationing out the precious and scarce resource that is Tar Heel tickets. People have to camp out and remain present in their camps as demonstrated in role calls just to get […]
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