by Franklin Wordsmith | Jan 15, 2019 | Neuroscience
We all went to school with a kid like Neil.He was the one whose mind was always wandering in our third grade classroom. Much to the chagrin of our teacher, Sister Mary Rafael.One afternoon, she asked Neil a question in the middle of his personal reverie. After getting...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Jan 12, 2019 | Leadership
It’s all in your head — and theirs.Last week, we talked about why our brains hate goals. This week, here’s a powerful, easy-to-use idea on how to make goals and requests more irresistible to the part of our brain that decides to take...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Jan 2, 2019 | Leadership
New Year’s resolutions. Organizational goals.We all feel pressured to set them. Yet research indicates that 92% of us won’t achieve our goals. And we often abandon them before January ends.There’s a lot of speculation on why that happens. This...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Dec 18, 2018 | Neuroscience
You know that uncomfortable feeling. Maybe it’s an unhappy client who is going to contest an invoice.Or a board member who believes your operation is falling short and wants to shake things up. Or an employee who thinks she should have been promoted, and wasn’t.You’re...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Dec 10, 2018 | Storytelling
It was the last thing I expected.An email from the producer of TRT World’s Nexus online international news program. He asked if I would do a Skype interview analyzing the body language of world leaders at the G20 Summit.I swallowed hard. My approach to body language...
