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“Good Boss, Bad Boss” by Robert Sutton: Part One
Being a boss or having a boss is about dealing with the confidence, comfort, warmth, resentment, confusion, and flashes of anger and despair that pervade any relationship where one person wields power in an up-close and personal way over another. … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, good boss bad boss, human behavior, leadership, management, relationships, robert sutton
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“Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain” by David Eagleman: Part Two
The neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran speculates that the quip about men preferring blonds may have a biological seed of truth to it: paler women more easily show signs of disease, while the darker complexions of swarthier women can better disguise their … Continue reading
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Tagged David Eagleman, human behavior, Incognito, mindset, neurology, perception, psychology
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“Predictably Irrational” by Dan Ariely
This book surprised me because I thought it was going to be something different than it was. Originally I thought this book was going to be based more on theory (See “Thinking Fast, and Slow”) vice social situations (See “Incognito” … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, books, Dan Ariely, experimental psychology, human behavior, market norms, Predictably Irrational, pscyhology, rationality, social norms, Socrates
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