The Wall Street Journal just asked CEOs to answer this question and they got some interesting results (see them here). Spirit Airlines CEO Ben Baldanza offered “push the envelope,” though I think his reason is wrong. (I suspect most people do understand the phrase’s meaning, even if many don’t know...
Are you working with an overconfident gorilla?
A recent book argues persuasively that we can’t be terribly sure of our perceptions, memory, or self-assessment (The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris & Daniel Simons). But I think my favorite insight was learning that although confidence is a trait that varies from person to person, it actually has little...
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
— David H. Comins
In defense of we cogs
It’s become quite fashionable to say that the old organizational schemes are dead, “we’re all independent contractors,” and we all need to sell ourselves as such — constantly changing roles and plugging into an endless series of ever shifting business ventures. While I’m all for flexibility and the willingness to change...
