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I don’t think people really like to make choices. Maybe if we honestly saw — and considered — the number of choices in front of us everyday, it would overwhelm us. So people like to “simplify”. Sometimes, they develop habits — they have the same breakfast or run the same route or watch the same [...]

There is a style instrument called the DISC which I use frequently when I start work with teams. A high D — Dominance — is biased towards action, willing to take risks, focused on results. A high I — Influence — is visionery and inspirational. A high S — Steadiness — plays well on teams [...]

How hard is it for a person to change? Depends on what level the person has to work. The easiest level of change is a change in “style”. Style refers to a person’s habitual response to a situation, the response that is the most comfortable, takes the least energy and thought. Most people can quickly [...]

If the point of a blog post is to generate controversy and dialog, “Playing Rough” was a success. The replies tended to fall into two groups. Some took exception to my description, saying it was one-sided, didn’t take responsibility for my own part it the dynamic, and generalized the phenomenon to male/female. To those, I [...]