In my third blog based on, Mapping Motivation, from Routledge (http://amzn.to/2eqdSQq) I'd like to look at one fascinating aspect of Chapter 3. The nine-point summary at the end of the chapter says: "Speed of decision-making, attitude to risk, and desire for change are also aligned with the nine motivators – as are our orientation toContinue reading “Emotions, Risk, Change, Feel, Think and Know: geddit?”
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Emotional Intelligence and Educating People
Emotional intelligence is certainly a breakthrough concept of the last twenty years or so; it helps explain why so many high IQ or highly intelligent people make spectacularly bad decisions and crash. Further, it also gives us a new agenda and language that can be used to help all managers and teachers and coaches developContinue reading “Emotional Intelligence and Educating People”
How Success Turns to Failure
We all want to be successful, don’t we? There are certainly many benefits to it: prestige, status, power, money and more! Success we want but it is too easy to forget the old Chinese philosophy of Yin and Yang; that for every success we have there is likely to be a corresponding dark side, thereContinue reading “How Success Turns to Failure”
The Green House Hotel
I was invited last week by Mark Liddle of Middletons Insolvency Practice: http://www.middletonpartners.co.uk/south_west_region and David Foster of Winning Business, http://www.winningbusiness.co.uk/, to give a talk at the Green House Hotel, largely to financial and professional services owners and managers, over lunch. It seemed germane to me to focus on resolutions, intentions and goals for the newContinue reading “The Green House Hotel”
The Mapping Motivation Series 