You are being let down by a ghost đ» Not by your manager. Or your colleague. Or your team member. Rather: you are being let down by the version of people that exists ONLY  in your head. When I was in Australia recently, everyone called us âyou guys.â Waiters, guides⊠everyone. At first I found […]
Read MoreNow you know AI is an ineffective coach, be careful you donât hire its human equivalent đ€ I am concerned the coaching industry is increasingly defaulting to a standard of polite validation over rigorous challenge â unwittingly mimicking the AI sycophancy I deplored the other week. There is a dangerous misconception that high-impact coaching is […]
Read MoreâAlexandra, youâre already out of a job,â an AI creator warned me recently. AI has several PhDs in psychology. As such, it can give you well-meaning advice. It will list relationship skills, explain active listening, and offer tips to resolve conflict. It will write you a long recipe about how to influence. It knows all […]
Read MoreWould you like to know why youâre abandoning your New Yearâs resolutions? Did you wince when you read that? If so, it wasnât the first time, was it? There is no shortage of research and analysis on how quickly we drop our New Year resolutions. Psychologists call it âself-sabotageâ: doing whatâs harmful and suffering about […]
Read MoreNo Less Than the Rest of Your Career Is at Stake When Your Manager Entrusts You with a New Project In previous articles, we explored two ideas that sit at the heart of how careers really unfold: Relationship Friction and Relationship Wisdom. The first describes those subtle interpersonal tensions that quietly erode trust, confidence, and […]
Read MoreRelationship Wisdom: The Antidote that Transforms Relationship Friction into Career Momentum There’s a particular kind of professional exhaustion that has nothing to do with workload. It shows up as dread before certain meetings, the weight of unresolved tensions, or that persistent sense that you’re working twice as hard for half the recognition. You deliver excellent […]
Read MoreRelationship Friction: The Hidden Force That Breaks Careers âRelationship Frictionâ (RF) is one of those concepts people recognize immediately when it is named yet struggle to describe while they are living inside it. Among other things, it shows up as tension in meetings, second-guessing after conversations, resentment that quietly accumulates, or a persistent sense that […]
Read MoreHello and welcome to this monthâs neuro blog! Letâs see: where have we got to? Three articles in, we know about the three parts of the human brain (read about the triune brain) and the dominance of the unconscious. We also know that one of the main purposes of the human brain is sense-making (read again about what the brain is for). […]
Read MoreHello and welcome to this monthâs neuro blog! And I promise, no more about paying attention! I appreciate that four articles â fascinating though they were, werenât they? â on that topic is enough. But before we move on, wasnât it interesting to see how neuroscience â and notably understanding how our brains process stimuli, including social cues […]
Read MoreHello and welcome to this monthâs neuro blog! Last month, we discussed other-awareness and landed on the notion that disagreement â about beliefs, values and behaviours â is more likely to be the norm. I advocated tolerance but also proposed that you put on a metaphorical Detective Columboâs raincoat (no need for the cigar nor the dishevelled look) and go look for the […]
Read MoreHello and welcome to this monthâs neuro blog! And of course: best wishes for happy 2018! In last monthâs blog, we discussed the fact that voluntary attention â what we consciously focus on â is the instrument thanks to which we can shape our reality â rather than it being just the result of an interpretative process based […]
Read MoreHello and welcome to the third article of my neuro blog. In the first one, I described the three parts of the human brain (see image to the left for a reminder of the triune brain), notably the importance of the unconscious. In the second article, I suggested that one of the main purposes of […]
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