by Franklin Wordsmith | Feb 19, 2021 | Neuroscience
What’s Going on in Others’ Brains — and What You Can Do about It When was the last time you needed to have a tough talk with someone? A friend told me it was Saturday night in the grocery store checkout line. The woman behind her was with a tween-age...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Feb 10, 2021 | Leadership
Confidence Versus Competence The Universe made me write this article. This morning, I saw these two things in quick succession: A LinkedIn post from workforce and career agility expert Marti Konstant on why the most qualified candidate doesn’t always win the job...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Feb 3, 2021 | Leadership
It Can Be a Great Organizational Change Tool or a Cultural Slippery Slope This started out as a missive on the “boiling frog syndrome.” You may have heard of it. In an experiment, a live frog was dropped into boiling water and it jumped out, because it...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Jan 20, 2021 | Leadership
Don’t Just Listen for Content It was the ultimate in honesty. I was on a Zoom meeting. We reached the point of discussing next steps. One participant said, “Excuse me, but could you repeat that? I wasn’t paying attention.” We all laughed in...
by Franklin Wordsmith | Dec 1, 2020 | Neuroscience
Here Are the Benefits to Your Brain — and the Brains of Everyone Who Sees You This is a scary statistic. Children smile an average of 400 times a day. (Ultrasounds show they also smile in the womb.) Adults who are known to smile a lot do this about 40 to 50...
