This is a follow-up to the posting of March 14th based on a new book called Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. It is a video of Professor Carol Dweck explaining fixed and growth mindsets. Also, this diagram explains the...

This is the final issue of Science Daily Week. Heres a three-fer. Researchers at the University of Oregon found that when people watch someone perform a task that they know theyll have to repeat later, similar parts of the brain...

Todays Science Daily tidbit is that advertising during television programs with sexy content is less effective than during programs with no sexy content. This is the research finding of Ellie Parker and Adrian Furnham of the Department of Psychology of...

Science Daily Week continues with the study of assistant professor Vanessa Patrick (University of Georgia) along with co-authors Debbie MacInnis and C. Whan Park (University of Southern California): Marketing: Too Much Hype Backfires. The study shows that people take notice...

I recently learned about Science Daily. It is a treasure chest of interesting studies that has implications on business practices. Ive collected so much material from it that this is going to be Science Daily Week in my blog. For...

Im making a speech next week (March 29th) in Kewlowna, BC for the Okanagan Science and Technology Councils 2007 Silicon Vineyard Innovation Awards. If any of you are in the area, I hope you can make it....

My Stanford psychology professor, Dr. Philip Zimbardo, and Zeno Franco, a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at Pacific Graduate School of Psychology wrote a terrific article called The Banality of Heroism. Dr. Zimbardo ran the (in)famous Stanford Prison Experiment, so...

The guys at iInnovate posted a lovely interview with Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. Among the topics they covered were: Anti-trust (with a beautiful deke to create time and space as we say in hockey) Innovation Competitive advantages Motivation of...

SlideShare.net, a site for sharing PowerPoint presentations, today announced The Worlds Best Presentation Contest. The judges are a whos who of presentation gurus: Bert Decker, Garr Reynolds, Jerry Weissman, and me. Contestants upload their presentation files to Slideshare.net, and people...

Bob Suttons book, The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isnt, continues to, well, kick butt. Its gaining notoriety across the globe and, more importantly, its usually in the top twenty sellers of Amazon. Here...