Tag: myths
Learning Styles, Neurobabble, and Other Psychological Myths with Scott Lilienfeld
Listen to our podcast on psychological myths, neuroscience, and mental illness I first became aware of today’s guest as I was writing a book on business change, which led me to make a list of change myths. While I was at it, I also looked at psychological myths. After all, change involves changing people, which is […]
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7 Myths and Cognitive Biases that Might be Killing Your Career?
Helping people find careers they love sometimes means helping them get out of their own way. These seven career myths and cognitive biases are the most damaging. Which might be getting in your way? This summary of career myths is from Reboot Your Career, co-authored with Tim Ragan, and available end-September 2016. The article first appeared in […]
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Top 20 Change Management Myths
Why does change fail? With change failure rates hovering around 50% (according to the most recent surveys from McKinsey and IBM), we must wonder why. In The Science of Successful Organizational Change, I try to challenge some of the orthodox beliefs about change – for example, that metaphors such as “freezing” and “unfreezing” are apt, […]
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