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How can we create conditions for high performance in children and adults?   What mindset would I recommend if you wish to achieve success...

Is talent portable?   Peter Drucker famously said that, unlike manual workers, knowledge workers carry their knowledge in their heads and...

If you are using interviewing as your primary tool of selection, you may as well switch to using handwriting analysis. Hand-writing...

A wealth of research points to the futility of interviews for hiring. Research has found that interviews are less predictive of job...

One of the misconceptions about creativity is that it is an entirely original endeavor. Nothing could be further from the truth, for...

Hierarchies are ubiquitous in nature. They evolved for a reason. They make group work, resource allocation, and the achievement of group...

When you are in a group, what you think and say could be influenced by what others say. And scarily, this happens in the brain, and you...

Lewis Terman, a professor of psychology, asked teachers in California schools to nominate their brightest children for an IQ test. Among...

When a setback strikes you, how you explain it can determine whether you remain happy.   Martin Seligman, who laid the foundations of the...

Work devoid of meaning could be detrimental to your health. Researchers paid subjects in an experiment a small amount of money to...

In 512 BC, the King of Wu summoned Sun Tzu. The king had read Sun Tzu’s  Art of War  and was intrigued. But he was also wary. What if Sun...

Leadership has long been a subject of debate among researchers, with studies offering seemingly contradictory insights. Some research...

Doing self-reflection, establishing your core identity, and choosing a career path may be the wrong way to build your career, research...

Do you seek opportunities or create them? Business managers and entrepreneurs differ in how they treat their work, especially when faced...

Is your CEO all over your company’s social media and print media? Your company may be doomed even if you are being paid a high bonus now....

If you are running a business, what is better to learn: Marketing, accounting, financial management, and human resource management or The...

It is all about what that experience has done to you. It’s about how you practiced your ‘deliberate practice’. The first step in...

In the 1950s, the people of the northern region of Borneo Islands, the largest island in the Malay Archipelago, faced a large malaria...

Exponential thinking has attracted the public's attention ever since the likes of Elon Musk and Naveen Jain endorsed it. While creative...

In 2011, researcher Ap Dijksterhuis and team asked experimental subjects to make purchasing decisions for a clothing item either slowly...