One of the outrage factors that we talk about in our two-day course deals with issues and events that people find most memorable. And the things that we find most memorable tend to be the more negative and emotionally sticky events of our lives....
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A pretty credible study concludes, in part, Teenage males were more likely than average to be self-centered, but this proportion decreased with age. These 18-year-olds are going to grow up, except some people don’t grow up, and they become senior political statesmen....
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We’ve frequently talked about facts versus perceptions in past issues of this newsletter, and how differently people tend to view the same things. As it was once said, “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” Here are some things you’ll find interesting....
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Mark Twain said, “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” If you’re looking for the right words, try these....
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There’s no way around it, people don’t trust most authorities or organizations with power over their lives. Public trust in institutions has been consistently deteriorating for decades but seemed to fall over the cliff after the more recent U.S. economic crash. Here’s the cold truth....
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This isn’t about changing engineers (that’s just creepy), it’s about helping technically oriented people understand how and why people resist change. Most of the work that you do ultimately leads to some kind of change that people are required to accept in their lives, and believe it or not, there’s ...
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The two biggest public challenges that clients and students tell us they face is that (1) they don’t know how to get people involved, except for (2) the ones that do, come to meetings and hearings mad. They’re right, and here’s the empirical evidence....
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