Archive for June, 2008

“He impaired his vision by holding the object too close. He might see, perhaps, one or two points with unusual clearness, but in so doing he, necessarily, lost sight of the matter as a whole.” – C. Auguste Dupin in The Murders in the Rue Morgue. In l974 I was recruited out of The Harvard [...]

In my last Tip, I described mindsets. Carol S. Dweck sheds light on mindsets in her book, Mindset: The New Psychology Of Success, Random House, 2006. Here I want to describe how mindsets create a self-fulfilling prophecy. The fixed mindset believes that leadership and other talent is based partly on innate traits. Either you have [...]

Having an emotionally intelligent mindset will increase your personal and interpersonal effectiveness. Carol S. Dweck sheds light on mindsets in her book, Mindset: The New Psychology Of Success, Random House, 2006. You may ask, isn’t emotional intelligence about doing the right things? Yes, but how you start out to do them is important too. What [...]

Emotional intelligence provides us with strategies other than frantic attempts to control our situation. Consider the story of test pilots told by Tara Brach in her excellent book, Radical Acceptance, on page 49. In the 1950′s air force test pilots attempted with new jet engines to fly at higher altitudes than ever before. In the [...]