How can you create a creative working atmosphere to generate as many different ideas as possible? Reduce hierarchies during the brainstorming process, as Eveline Geiser explains in the NZZ article. To put it more casually: send the boss on a coffee break. Any form of evaluation is detrimental to creativity. Don’t let the team express […]
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A negotiated solution can only be found if both sides benefit from it. Objective criteria, including their weighting, must be defined in order to assess the benefits. Agreeing on these criteria and their weighting in advance speeds up the negotiations. ‘Electricity companies, environmental protection organisations and cantons have agreed on rules and a list of
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How can ‘influencing’ and ‘negotiating’ be used to turn projects into reality? What negotiation strategies should be pursued and what framework conditions are needed to ensure that negotiations result in stable contracts in both the political and economic environment? Dr Adis Merdzanovic (lecturer at the ZHAW) and Dr Adrienne Suvada (lecturer at the ZHAW) asked
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Arguments should be valid and credible. This is how we prepare ourselves if we want to win over our counterpart for a project idea. We deliberately focus on the three most important arguments, the weakest in the middle and the strongest at the end. So what about assessing a large number of counter-arguments? Reality shows
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Great leaders inspire action by communicating why they do something and not just what they do. In doing so, they connect to beliefs and emotions. Simon Sinek presents this extremely powerful communication model in his legendary TED Talk. He illustrates his “Golden Circle” thinking model with examples from Martin Luther King and the Wright brothers,
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Why are we at our best in sport when we think nothing? How do we stay calm in crucial moments? Interview with sports psychologist Jörg Wetzel in the Neue Züricher Zeitung (NZZ). NZZ: But the ideal state of an athlete is when they think nothing? “Yes. We speak of flow: when everything runs automatically –
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Professional fibbers, these athletes NZZ, 15.5.2018: “We lie. All of us. Several times a day. Athletes do it too, often in interviews; although they prefer to call it something else, “answering professionally”, for example. Some of them have recounted recent situations: What they said – and what they really thought: He said, “The new coach
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Australian Hollywood star Nicole Kidman reveals to Jimmy Fallon on his Tonight Show that she had her eye on him years ago and he didn’t realize it. “I just remember liking you… So we came up to you and you were wearing a baseball cap – and you just didn’t talk. You didn’t say anything!
Nicole Kideman surprises Jimmy Fallon on his Tonight Show Read More »
George Entwistle, CEO of the British media company BBC, resigned in mid-November 2012. In doing so, he drew the consequences of the false allegations of abuse against a British ex-politician that were broadcast in a television report by his broadcasting group. A subtle but hard-hitting interview by BBC journalist John Humphry was the straw that
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