Posted on March 4, 2024
Pygmalion effect
The Pygmalion effect is a psychological phenomenon in which high expectations lead to improved performance in a given area and low expectations lead to worse.[1] It is named after the Greek myth of Pygmalion, the sculptor who fell so much in love with the perfectly beautiful statue he created that the statue came to life. The psychologists Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson present a view, that has been called into question as a result of later research findings, in their book Pygmalion in the Classroom; borrowing something of the myth by advancing the idea that teachers’ expectations of their students affect the students’ performance.[2] Rosenthal and Jacobson held that high expectations lead to better performance and low expectations lead to worse,[3] both effects leading to self-fulfilling prophecy.
According to the Pygmalion effect, the targets of the expectations internalize their positive labels, and those with positive labels succeed accordingly; a similar process works in the opposite direction in the case of low expectations. The idea behind the Pygmalion effect is that increasing the leader’s expectation of the follower’s performance will result in better follower performance. Within sociology, the effect is often cited with regard to education and social class.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect#Students’_views_of_teachers
Posted on March 3, 2024
Quote of the day #2
“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”
-Sigmund Freud
Posted on March 1, 2024
Quote of the Day #1
“Becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.”
-Michelle Obama, from Becoming
Posted on February 22, 2024
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Posted on February 17, 2024
Organizational Planning and Execution in Three Levels – Strategic, Tactical, Operational
When you are developing a plan for a company based on the time horizon, which could be like six months or a one-year plan, you need to consider these three dimensions.
The Strategic Level
The strategy level is the big picture. It is long-term focused and a point where the executive management focuses on the vision and mission of an organization. It could be a clearly spelled out two-year to Five-year vision for the company. The executives are most concerned and involved at this level a lot more. For IT professionals and IT Leaders, this helps to understand what direction the company is heading to and how the IT initiatives can support that path. An important question for the leaders at this level is, “What is the right direction for the company?”
The Tactical Level
The tactical level is for the mid-term. Depending on the company type, it can be planned for six months to two years on the time horizon. It can be focused on specific business departments, unlike the strategic level of planning, which focuses on the entire company. The tactical level is a middle management stage where activities and actions are developed to support a company’s strategy. An essential question for the leaders at this level is, ” What activities and projects to be planned in strategic alignment?”
The operation level is for the short-term. This level is focused on day-to-day running and detail-level processes for specific outcomes. The managers prepare the operational plan to run the business, and this planning can be for three to six months. The primary responsibility of the management is to ensure the day-to-day operations are running as expected and aligned with the organizational strategy.
So, even though the strategy is created and developed for the entire business over the long term, the alignment must be ensured through the bottom-up from day-to-day activities. Therefore, those at the bottom of the organization hierarchy to the middle management level must always ask: Are our decisions and actions aligned with the business strategy and vision?
Posted on February 16, 2024
Understanding Personality: The 12 Jungian Archetypes
The term “archetype” means original pattern in ancient Greek. Jung used the concept of archetype in his theory of the human psyche. He identified 12 universal, mythic characters archetypes reside within our collective unconscious.
Jung defined twelve primary types that represent the range of basic human motivations. Each of us tends to have one dominant archetype that dominates our personality.
Read MorePosted on February 14, 2024
Scenario Planning: Strategy, Steps and Practical Examples
- Scenario planning helps decision-makers identify ranges of potential outcomes and impacts, evaluate responses and manage for both positive and negative possibilities
- By visualizing potential risks and opportunities, businesses can become proactive versus simply reacting to events
- There are a number of templates and formalized frameworks for scenario planning, as we’ll discuss. What’s important is choosing a method that works for your team
- We’ll look at two fictional firms, a software company and a wholesale distributor, to illustrate the planning process
Posted on February 4, 2024
A little play with numbers
Posted on February 2, 2024