At a recent two-day conference I taught to over fifty leaders in Amsterdam, we began by participants reading the Ground Rules. They expressed surprise at the fourth and most controversial rule of our collective engagement: Your phone, laptop, tablet or other digital device must be switched off during the sessions. A phone ringing during a [...]
Read More You can also read this article in Psychology Today here The greatest lesson I learned at a conference I facilitated for over fifty nonprofit leaders in Amsterdam earlier this month dates back to a troubled American teenager named Mark. Don’t Give Up on Me At sixteen years old, Mark had been expelled from a public […]
Read More Many people claim that the entire social media business model enables narcissistic people to thrive. Is this true? Let’s take a deep dive. If it is in fact true, then this idea would be predicated on people being attracted to posts that attack others. Kind posts, by this reasoning, would not tend to incite as […]
Read More Are you feeling disconnected from work and others and struggling to renew your motivation? Read Dr. Anthony Silard’s latest article in the International Business Times bit.ly/the-boss-and-resignation If you have enjoyed this article, you can receive similar articles by Dr. Anthony Silard in your email inbox. Every two weeks, we send the latest issue of The Art […]
Read More “My husband and I went out to dinner with another couple, and it was incredible that most of the time they were on their phones,” reports Monica, a wedding planner in Chicago who attended one of my recent conferences on Leadership in Times of Social Disconnection. “My friend posted on Facebook, ‘Having a great time […]
Read More I went for a walk around Lago di Albano (near Rome) this past weekend and was thinking about how there are two things we do in life: First, we choose how we want to live. Second, we live with what we choose. I was reflecting on how I’ve made some choices in my life that […]
Read More This is Part Three of a three-part series. If the emotion people experience on Facebook is primarily envy, it would be helpful to understand what motivates Facebook users that provokes this emotion in others. A number of psychologists set out to do exactly that. The psychiatrist Ashwini Nadkarni of the Boston Medical Center reviewed forty-two […]
Read More This is Part Two of a three-part series. “One of the more vivid events in my life was the time that my daughter, at two years old, was diagnosed with central diabetes insipidus (a rare disorder),” Leanne told me, looking down at the floor at one of my leadership conferences. When You’re Down, Social Media […]
Read More This is Part One of a three-part series. People used to believe that when we start to compete in any sport or game, such as football, chess or hang gliding, we compare ourselves with the masters of the game in order to give ourselves something ambitious to aim toward. Until Leon Festinger came along. Be Good, […]
Read More You don’t have to search very far to discover examples of narcissism. Whether it’s yet another person in the Great Resignation refusing to return to the office and work for an arrogant supervisor, or the guy sitting next to you on the plane upbraiding the flight attendant because his seat won’t recline, or even the […]
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