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Personality and the Secret Life of Organizations
From chimpanzee troops to boardrooms, Robert Hogan, PhD, explains how the search for individual power shapes the secret life of organizations.
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What democratic leadership principles should the United States carry forward into the next 250 years? Competence, humility, integrity, and judgment.
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Global manager engagement fell nine percentage points in four years. Learn how personality data can help organizations respond to this crisis.
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High Stakes Hiring
Like many people, my coworker is afraid of flying. We encourage him to take sleeping pills and try to distract him with entertaining stories...
Movember: A Proud 30 Days with a Prostache
November 1 was the official kick off to the month of Movember. For those unaware of the meaning behind this portmanteau, simply...
Scouting Out Future Leaders
Goal setting; sound decision making; problem solving; networking, embracing diversity…these factors have more in common than their presence across...
No Bull, Just the Basics
As unpatriotic as it sounds: I am not a huge fan of the presidential election cycle. It’s not that I don’t value the power I’m given to choose the...
Chasing Shadows to the C Suite
At the recent Conference Board in Chicago, a number of talent management professionals and consulting experts gave presentations on next-generation...
Chasing Your Shadow: Leadership Brand and Derailment
I recently listened to a talk given by Greg Barnett, one of Hogan’s veteran consultants and our Director of Product Development, about the...
Five Essentials of Execution
1. The agenda to be executed should make sense to those who must execute it — people should be persuaded that the agenda is worth following.
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Self-Deception and Evolutionary Theory
I have been interested in the problem of self-deception (doing things for reasons that we don’t properly understand or...
How Attractive Is Your Personality? (Part II)
In August I wrote about some interesting findings about how our personality makes us more or less physically attractive to others (
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The power of culture and engagement: an apple and its amazing story
Take a look at a company logo. What do you see? An image? A story? A brand? A way of living?
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Streaming Leadership Derailment
I’m a big movie buff. Since I have young children I rarely get a chance to go the movie theaters anymore to see a film that doesn’t star Woody,...