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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...
Tags: Business Operations, Sean Silverthorne, Research & Development, Productivity, Computer, Brain
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...
Tags: Personal Technology, Tv & Home Theater, CC Holland, Home Entertainment, Games, TVs, Brain
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:...
Tags: Food & Beverage, Flash Memory, Manufacturing, CC Holland, Brain
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...
Tags: Sales, Sales Force Management, Productivity, Sales Strategy, Brain, Emotion, Geoffrey James
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...
Tags: Brain, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing Research, Viruses And Worms, Strategy, Security, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Management, Michael Fitzgerald, Insight
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...
Tags: In Brief, Harvard Business Review, mental capacity, aging, Management, intellect, Brain, Leadership, Pattern Recognition, Roderick Gilkey, Clint Kilts
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...
Tags: Jessica Stillman, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, Opinion, Brain, Researcher
Blog posts 2007-10-05
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...
Tags: Brain, Employer, Tool, Quintessential Careers, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
White papers 2008-01-01
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...
Tags: Deloitte LLP, Brain, Information Technology, Business, Strategy, Management
White papers 2008-04-04
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...
Tags: Brain, Music, DoveSong Foundation
White papers 2002-11-18
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...
Tags: brain, jennifer goddard
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...
Tags: Brain, CPU, Brain Cell, Intensity Exercise, Leadership, Flash Memory, Strategy, Management, Jennifer Goddard
Blog posts 2008-08-18
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...
Tags: Brain, Emotional Intelligence, Food & Beverage, Knowledge Management, Strategy, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Jennifer Goddard
Blog posts 2008-09-16
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...
Tags: Brain, Podcasts, Internet, BNET Staff
Blog posts 2008-10-06
Savvy Web Surfers Make Faster Decisions (But Fewer Friends)
  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...
Tags: Web, Brain, Channel Management, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Marketing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Joanna Higgins
Blog posts 2008-10-27
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...
Tags: Brand, Brain, Martin Lindstrom, Branding, Marketing, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2009-01-21
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...
Tags: Brain, Financial, Money, Financial Accounting, Finance, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2009-03-25
The Guaranteed Cure For Severe Public Speaking Anxiety
Some people are born with brains wired for worry, fear, depression, frustration, or agitation. Brains wired this way have low levels of a calming chemical naturally produced in the brain. People diffident in giving speeches, being unprepared, fail at giving speeches. The better prepared you are, the more confident you...
Tags: Public Speaking, Brain, CreateTime.com
White papers 2008-02-25
Top Nine Tips To Save Time In The Meeting
Activities in a group or a team need a brain storming, where all the personnel will discuss particular things or issue about the work which they are doing. But meeting also can be our time killers if we do not schedule it in a proper way. Meetings, in which brain...
Tags: Brain, Team Management, Management
White papers 2008-01-01
Personal Time Management: Organized Brain Storming May Sound Like An Oxymoron
At the time you may even have thought it was kind of stupid and a waste of time as people called out ideas that seemed kind of outlandish to you. This personal time management idea will help you to utilize brain storming to increase your performance and creativity. This paper...
Tags: Brain, SelfGrowth.com, Time Management, Productivity
White papers 2007-12-01