Archive for Performance Management

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 [...]

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 [...]

Tara Brach in her book, Radical Acceptance, on p. 24, tells this story:
“Mohini was a regal white tiger who lived for many years at the Washington, D.C. Zoo. for most of those years her home was in the old lion house – a typical twelve-by-twelve-foot cage with iron bars and a cement floor. [...]