As it gets closer to the new year, most people are considering what resolutions they’ll make. An oft-quoted fact is most New Years resolutions are broken, yet we make them year after year. My least favorite time of year to go to the gym is in the first three weeks of January. Besides the overcrowding,… Read more »
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Best Holiday Gifts for Your Employees
With the holidays around the corner, year-end also brings about the gift-shopping season. While we bang our head against the wall for new gift ideas every year, organizations are also constantly brainstorming new ways to reward their employees and show appreciation for their contributions. Historically, monetary compensation was the ultimate reward in the workplace. However,… Read more »
What is Good Judgment…Really?
Good judgment isn’t about being smart. It’s not even about making good decisions. The essence of good judgment is about learning from past mistakes. It’s about applying feedback to the next opportunity so as not to needlessly repeat blunders or continue to pursue a course that just isn’t panning out. It’s about remaining open to… Read more »
Hogan Announces GSD Award Recipient
Anyone who knew our late co-founder Dr. Joyce Hogan knew that she approached the business with a singular mandate: get stuff done.
Three Ways to Fail Better
You make thousands of decisions every day, from the momentous to the mundane. Chances are, at some point, you’re going to screw one of them up.
Lying About Lying
There are plenty of morally permissible reasons to lie – complimenting a dreadful haircut, assuring a friend he or she doesn’t look fat, and promising to wear the exceptionally unattractive sweater you got for your birthday are all justifiable deceits by virtue of being polite. Honesty may be a social virtue, but lying is a… Read more »
Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions
Our brains are overloaded. The average American consumes 34GB of data each day, a 350% increase over the last 28 years. That adds up to 11.8 hours of information per day, including 100,000 words of information across multiple platforms (War and Peace is 460,000 words long). People send and receive an average of 35… Read more »
Judgment is About Making Good Decisions
We make thousands of decisions every day. And in a perfect world, every decision would be rational and deliberate, and every problem would have a clear solution. In the real world, however, there is rarely enough time or information to make a reasoned decision. Even so, it’s clear that some people have better judgment than… Read more »
“The Science of Personality” is Now Available
Q&A: Personality and Safety
For companies in every industry, worker safety is a major concern; companies spent billions of dollars a year on equipment and training aimed at creating a safer workforce. Yet, in 2013 alone, 4,405 U.S. workers died on the job. In this Q&A, Hogan consultant Kristen Switzer discusses the missing component in workplace safety – personality…. Read more »