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In Ron Howard’s new movie, Rush, we see the story of James Hunt and Niki Lauda, rival Formula One race car drivers and the dramatic events of the 1976 racing season. Like the sport, the movie is fast-paced and exciting, but while I was expecting to find Formula One racing center stage, I was
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The MBTI–My Most Valid Tool
Adam Grant’s recent article Goodbye to the MBTI, the Fad that Won't Die includes a long list of criticisms pointed at the MBTI assessment. The article is well written and thoughtful as it tries to build the case against the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment and also to diminish the efforts of
What is With These Crazy Kids?
In the Forbes article, “20 Things 20-Somethings Don’t Get”, author Jason Nazar lays out twenty bits of professional advice—tips that often go unheeded or at least that come as a surprise to many Millennials (those born between 1980 and 2000)—now the twenty-somethings among us. Among the terrific and
Great EQ Article in Harvard Business Review
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic has written a nice and tight defense of emotional intelligence as a foundation to coaching and training. He highlights the importance of getting good EQ data to feed an effective coaching or training effort. The EQ-i (and its sister tool the EQ360) are beautifully designed
Myers-Briggs: Over Assessment Danger?
Can someone take the MBTI Assessment too many times? In terms of taking assessments too often, there is no harm in it, but the frequency of taking any given assessment draws the validity of subsequent takings into question--especially if there is feedback before the later times in which someone