What if I told you that the Golden Rule—the one that says “treat others the way you want to be treated”—can actually kill collaboration and innovation? My area of expertise is teams and innovation. I’ve seen the Golden Rule create conflict, miscommunication, and frustration, when people expect their teammates to
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August 18, 2022
"I'll never see people in the same way again..." How learning about thinking preferences impacts individuals, teams and collaboration.
August 10, 2022
Hear how one team expert enhances two of business's most popular process models by using FourSight to understand the people side.
October 23, 2021
A tale of two employees: She was the best of employees. He was…well, let’s just say he didn’t last.
February 18, 2020
Ad agency president, Stacie Boney, knew she wanted to make a big improvement in her team’s approach to annual and quarterly strategic planning sessions. Boney heads up Hanson Dodge, a full-service ad agency based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that serves clients like the Utah Office of Tourism, KEEN Utility and Stanley
October 23, 2019
Developers are the rarest of the four profiles. Only 6% of people in our database are single-preference Developers.
March 17, 2019
Research from the FourSight team discovers that thinking preferences influence career choice.
March 18, 2018
A few years ago, I backpacked through Southeast Asia with my best friend, Lauren. We started in Kuala Lumpur, and by time we parted ways in Ho Chi Minh City, we were in the throws of violent food poisoning and barely on speaking terms. I was exasperated that Lauren had no interest in decision making, and Lauren was
August 2, 2016
How can you measure the impact of teaching creative problem solving? It’s a challenge. Plenty of research shows the positive impact it has on individuals, but little research exists on the impact creativity training has on organizations, particularly on their top line growth. That changed in 2015, when a
