by Franklin Wordsmith | Mar 3, 2020 | Leadership, Video
What Are Your Meetings Saying about Your Corporate Culture? You’ve probably seen the horrific numbers on the effectiveness of business meetings. In 2019, Doodle did a survey of 6,500 professionals in the U.S., Germany and the UK, covering 19 million meetings....
by Franklin Wordsmith | Feb 27, 2020 | Leadership
How Our Brains Deal with Uncertainty I believe we all have an inner actuary. This is the part of our brains that evaluates risk: in things we’ve done before and in others we’ve never tried. Its job is to keep us safe. If the risk profile of what we’re considering is...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Feb 18, 2020 | Persuasion
Don’t “Show Up and Throw Up” and Hope for the Best My first big presentation was as a senior in high school. I had to give a two-hour talk on “utopianism.” Little did I know that this would span the continuum between what makes a terrible...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Feb 11, 2020 | Neuroscience
How this Affects You and Your Team and What to Do about It For years I’ve bastardized that children’s rhyme to remember the days in the month: “30 days hath September, April June and November. All the rest of 31—except January and February, which have 80.” For we in...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Feb 4, 2020 | Neuroscience
What Is Amygdala Hijack and What Can You Do about It? I’m one of those “get crap done” kind of people. Show me a problem: I figure out the alternatives, usually find the best ones and make solid suggestions. There are times when none of this is...
