Leaders Need to Harness Aristotle’s 3 Types of Knowledge

Leaders Need to Harness Aristotle’s 3 Types of Knowledge

October 09, 2020

If you’re working to improve your leadership capability, what exactly should you be trying to develop? The experience of the 2020 pandemic offers a powerful lesson: A critical skill a leader must bring to the table is the ability to figure out what kind of thinking is required to address a given challenge.

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The most fundamental skill: Intentional learning and the career advantage

The most fundamental skill: Intentional learning and the career advantage

August 21, 2020

The call for individuals and organizations alike to invest in learning and development has never been more insistent. The World Economic Forum recently declared a reskilling emergency as the world faces more than one billion jobs transformed by technology.

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How To Develop Soft Skills

How To Develop Soft Skills

February 28, 2020

As automation and artificial intelligence dramatically change the nature of work, employees must fine-tune the social and emotional abilities machines cannot master. To encourage this behaviour, employers must adjust the ways they assess, educate, train and reward their workforce on soft skills such as collaboration, communication and critical thinking.

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How to nudge your way to better performance

How to nudge your way to better performance

January 17, 2020

People face so many pitfalls on their path to making reasonable decisions—whether they’re a consumer making a purchase or an employee meeting performance goals—how do you make it more likely that they’ll land on the most beneficial decision for them and for your organisation? 

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Changing mindsets and behaviour, one “nudge” at a time

Changing mindsets and behaviour, one “nudge” at a time

January 10, 2020

Our understanding of the unconscious mind has come a long way since Sigmund Freud, grounded in decades of research into what drives ordinary, everyday human behaviour. Today’s behavioural scientists like to say that we are predictably irrational. And what can be predicted can be managed, at least to some degree.

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How to Manage Your Emotions Without Fighting Them

How to Manage Your Emotions Without Fighting Them

December 27, 2019

We often hear tips and tricks for helping us to “control” our emotions, but that’s the wrong idea: strong emotions aren’t bad, and they don’t need to be pushed down or controlled; they are, in fact, data. 

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Can we teach intelligence?

Can we teach intelligence?

August 29, 2017

Hardly any other psychological concept is as important to us as intelligence. We want to make intelligent choices, be able to keep up an intelligent conversation, and simply be intelligent people. Not surprisingly, scientists have investigated intelligent and less intelligent behaviour for decades. A wide array of different, sometimes even contradicting definitions of intelligence and tests of intelligence have emerged as a result.

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