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- The Death of the Informed Decision
- To make a critical decision, we often siphon in as much raw data as possible, listen to expert advice, run scenarios, and then place our bet or bets on the most logical course of action. But if you notice, the captain of the Starship Enterprise was not...
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Boot Camp for Your Brain
- Last week I wrote about brain maintenance, and it seems like I'm not the only one with gray matter on my mind. An Associated Press article about the growing market for "brain fitness" revealed that software to train your brain resulted in $225 million in revenues in 2007. That's a...
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Simple Tricks to Tune Up Your Brain
- I caught a great post the other day from Shilpan Patel, who contends that brain maintenance is a must if you want to keep your gray matter in shape. Luckily, cranium care needn't be too taxing; he offers 14 simple ways to supercharge your brain. Among them:...
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Train Your Brain To Succeed at Sales!
- In my recent post "Ten Ways to Get Insanely Motivated", the first of the ten ways "Condition Your Mind" may have seemed a bit mysterious. In fact, conditioning your mind is easy, according to Jeff Keller, author of the bestselling book Attitude is Everything. Here...
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- The Secret to Eureka Moments
- I'm interested in how people come up with ideas. That's one reason why I reviewed Bernd Schmidt's book "Big Think" (see How To Build Bernd Schmitt's Trojan Horse). So I was eager to read The Road To Eureka! subscription required, a piece in Science News on...
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Cognitive Fitness
- The Idea in Brief What do Alan Greenspan, Warren Buffett, and Sumner Redstone have in common? They're still at the peak of their intellectual powers despite their advanced ages, defying the widespread belief that our mental capacity...
- Articles 2007-11-07
- Scientists Give PR People a Hand with Two Recent Studies
- The results of two interesting social science studies relevant to PR and marketing professionals are out this week. Imagine that when you were small, your mother consistently criticized some aspect of the way you performed or presented yourself. Later you grew up and decided (perhaps after years...
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- Music and the Brain
- A team of researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute, using the world's most advanced brain-mapping machines, have found that the same neural clusters that process the seductive pleasures of sex, chocolate and even hard drugs also fire up for music. There is also persuasive evidence that the brain tends to...
- White papers 2002-11-18
- Bringing The Business And IT Strategies In Line
- Businesses are like living organisms. They grow, they change, and they hopefully learn from their mistakes. Like living organisms, businesses also have a brain. The "Brain" of any business is the C-suite, which is charged with developing the strategic direction of the company. Most companies also have at least a...
- White papers 2008-04-04
- Your Brain is the New Black
- Is it just me or is our brain the new black? As I rushed out the door to catch a flight, I grabbed the top five magazines from my “To Read†pile. Each one had a major article on the brain with two magazines displaying a picture...
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Exercise Your Brainââ¬â¢s CPU
- Concerned about how many brain cells you've killed? Don't be, you are constantly regenerating them. Around a decade ago, researchers put an end to the myth that we were born with a set number of brain cells. More recent discoveries show exercise is the best way...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Why We're Wired for Procrastination
- Food for thought: Your procrastination habit isn't your fault. Your brain is to blame. That's right -- we're hard-wired for it. That because our brains trick us into procrastinating, saysTimothy A. Pychyl, Ph.D. Pychyl notes that five innate quirks of the brain (as described by David Rock,...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Is Brain Mapping the Future of Leadership?
- While looking at a person's brainwaves to study their leadership skills might sound like something out of a science fiction movie, such technology is closer than we may think. In fact, Pierre Balthazard, an associate professor at the Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, has...
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Use Your Whole Brain | BTalk Australia
- (Episode 251: 8min 59) How we think goes a long way to explaining who we are and what we do. In a work situation we need to understand ourselves and our colleagues if we are to make well-rounded decisions. Working alone there might be unforeseen repercussions for our actions because...
- Blog posts 2009-05-25
- The Mind on Money
- Are our brains different when they're in debt? Perhaps, says Tim Harford in this intriguing column, Your Brain On Credit. Harford, author of "The Logic of Life" and "The Undercover Economist," runs through some of the economics research on the topic. He cites studies suggesting...
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- The Buyology of the Brain
- Will marketers read our minds in the future? That's an argument one could make after looking at Martin Lindstrom's "Buyology." He got several corporations to fund a large-scale study involving brain imaging to look at what he thinks will change branding: neuroscience. In this excerpt, you can...
- Blog posts 2009-01-21
- Savvy Web Surfers Make Faster Decisions (But Fewer Friends)
- Â UCLA neuroscientist Gary Small has found that Web searching and text messaging is changing the way our brains work -- and helping us to filter information and make quick decisions. In a study of 24 adults, he found that experienced Web surfers' brains...
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Boost Your Brain Power | Useful Commute Podcast
- Did you know that the brain is a naturally aggressive animal that's designed to solve problems in jungles and grasslands? But contrary to this notion, most of our brain work today is done inside office cubicles, conference rooms and labs. In this podcast, John Medina, developmental molecular biologist and author...
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Exactly What is Good Thinking?
- I am sitting in a conference room in Singapore listening Tony Buzan's views on creativity, memory, innovation and good thinking. Buzan, the inventor of Mind Maps and author of 98 books, brings unique insight into how our brain works and how to get the most out of it. Here are...
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Mind Mapping: A Tool For Job-Interview Prep
- One of the biggest tricks in job interviews is being prepared with responses to possible interview questions. You don't know exactly what will be asked, but ideally you have a body of content in your brain that you can draw from based on your skills, experience, accomplishments, and knowledge of...
- White papers 2008-01-01
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