Dan Simons and Christopher Chabris met at Harvard in 1994 and began to collaborate on research about cognition. Their interest was in understanding how and how well we really pay attention. Their work demonstrated that we often do not observe change and most often, see what we are looking for. Our brain fills in gaps [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Sliding Down the Razor Blade of Life'
PonderThis: What Change? I Did Not See Any Change!
August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · PonderThis, Sliding Down the Razor Blade of Life
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Power Sharing and Dedication to Vision
May 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Follow the Leaders, Great Questions, Sliding Down the Razor Blade of Life
There is much to learn from the goings on in the UK right now. Unlike the Presidential system, elections in a Parliamentary system can be only the beginning. There are likely many things to learn about leadership as we watch the leaders of the UK try to sort out a way forward. Two issues however [...]
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PonderThis: What ELSE Can we Learn from Goldman Sachs
April 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Follow the Leaders, PonderThis, Sliding Down the Razor Blade of Life
The pundits have lined up to comment on the SEC’s indictment of Goldman Sachs. The analysis, finger pointing and positioning mounts by the hour. But in addition to the debates about reform and regulation there are some subtle yet important leadership lessons to be learned. Here are few that got my attention.
Perception Matters – [...]
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Meetings Again!
April 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Sliding Down the Razor Blade of Life
Meetings are low hanging fruit. If you were to parachute me into any company blind and ask me to find a way to make major impacts to productivity, meeting culture is one of the first places I would look.
After witnessing a painful, nonproductive 3 hour ordeal that has become a bi-weekly ritual for an otherwise [...]
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Bandwidth to Support Everyone in China on a Video Chat: But What Will They Talk About?
March 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Great Questions, PonderThis, Sliding Down the Razor Blade of Life
Content and process are one of the polarities that leaders must balance every day. And yet, process seems to trump content on a regular basis. Recent announcements in the technology world have introduced mind-boggling capacities for moving information. Google is literally entertaining bids from cities to be pilot markets for their planned high speed service. [...]
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