“Perseveration is often seen with dementia or thought disorders.”
Thus began an email I received in response to my recent post, “Perseverating”. Imagine my surprise upon reading it. Dementia? Thought disorders?
Dr. David Fitzgerald, neurologist and author of the email, went on to describe perseverators as those who “keep doing the...
“We make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.” V. S. Naipaul
In this time of goal and resolution setting, thoughts turn to the subject of the targets organizations set. When I am working with clients I often hear myself asking, with not very subtle disgust: “That’s...
During a discussion about why an employee was not doing so well, Dan, his boss, told me that the fellow spent too much time perseverating. Laughing at hearing this unusual word, I responded, “Perseverating. It has such a nice ring to it. What does it mean?”
Dan proceeded to explain...
Remember the days when, if you paid attention to what was going on in your company, your industry, and the world; if you followed procedures and were decent to your people, you could be a pretty good boss and deliver good results?
Remember when you could count on best practices...
“It’s not the customer’s job to know what they want.”—Steve Jobs
I just spent several days in discussions with a small group of the top people in a technology company where I am on the board. The topic: should we launch a completely new service that we believe will have...
“One more quarter and I’m sure he’ll manage to meet his goal.” That was the response I received when I asked at the quarter meeting of an organization I was advising, why a problematic salesperson was still employed. I’d asked this question a few times over the preceding months...
“Your brain believes what you tell it.”—David Emerald and Donna Zajonc
These words popped out at me as I read the weekly TED Works! missive. (David is the author of The Power of TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic)).
It struck me that this is the reason so many are stuck trying to...
You’ve probably noticed how almost everyone takes meeting notes on laptops or tablets. Almost everyone, because some people, including me, have noticed that it’s a lousy way to get the most out of the meeting and retain what happened.
There is a growing body of research showing that you learn...