TED Talk: Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation

Oktober 26, 2009 um 11:16 · Gespeichert unter Aktuell, Talks, leadership

Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories — and maybe, a way forward.


Dan Pink, Tom Peters, Martin Seligman und eine wachsende Zahl Menschen glauben, dass leben und arbeiten in der Flow Zone eine prima Idee ist. Da aber eine Vielzahl von Unternehmen noch immer auf „Zuckerbrot und Peitsche“ steht und das mit dem Sog noch nicht verstanden hat, gibt es noch eine Menge zu tun und zu erzählen. Vor langer,langer Zeit warb DANONE mit: „Früher oder später kriegen wir euch alle!“ (fast!)

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Martin Seligman on positive psychology

August 17, 2009 um 8:35 · Gespeichert unter Aktuell, Talks

Martin Seligman talks about psychology — as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us to become?

Martin Seligman is the founder of positive psychology, a field of study that examines healthy states, such as happiness, strength of character and optimism.

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Philip Zimbardo prescribes a healthy take on time

Juli 13, 2009 um 12:46 · Gespeichert unter Aktuell, Talks

Psychologist Philip Zimbardo says happiness and success are rooted in a trait most of us disregard: the way we orient toward the past, present and future. He suggests we calibrate our outlook on time as a first step to improving our lives.

Philip Zimbardo was the leader of the notorious 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment — and an expert witness at Abu Ghraib. His book The Lucifer Effect explores the nature of evil; now, in his new work, he studies the nature of heroism.

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Christopher deCharms looks inside the brain

Juni 24, 2009 um 9:39 · Gespeichert unter BrainViews

Neuroscientist and inventor Christopher deCharms demonstrates a new way to use fMRI to show brain activity — thoughts, emotions, pain — while it is happening. In other words, you can actually see how you feel.

Neuroscientist Christopher deCharms is helping to develop a new kind of MRI that allows doctor and patient to look inside the brain in real time — to see visual representations of brain processes as they happen. With his company Omneuron, deCharms has developed technology they call rtfMRI, for „real-time functional MRI“ — which is exactly what it sounds like. You move your arm, your brain lights up. You feel pain, your brain lights up.
How could we use the ability to see our brains in action? For a start, to help treat chronic pain with a kind of biofeedback; being able to visualize pain can help patients control it. And longer-term uses boggle the mind. Ours is the first generation, he believes, to be able to train and build our minds as systematically as a weightlifter builds a muscle. What will we do with this?
deCharms is also the author of the book Two Views of Mind, studying Buddhist theories of perception from a neuroscientist’s perspective.

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VS Ramachandran talks on your mind (TED2007)

Juni 13, 2009 um 8:34 · Gespeichert unter Aktuell, BrainViews, Talks

Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples

V.S. Ramachandran is a mesmerizing speaker, able to concretely and simply describe the most complicated inner workings of the brain. His investigations into phantom limb pain, synesthesia and other brain disorders allow him to explore (and begin to answer) the most basic philosophical questions about the nature of self and human consciousness.
Ramachandran is the director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego, and an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute. He is the author ofPhantoms in the Brain, the basis for a Nova special, and A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness; his next book, due out in January 2008, is called The Man with the Phantom Twin: Adventures in the Neuroscience of the Human Brain.
„Ramachandran is a latter-day Marco Polo, journeying the silk road of science to strange and exotic Cathays of the mind. He returns laden with phenomenological treasures…which, in his subtle and expert telling, yield more satisfying riches of scientific understanding.“
Richard Dawkins

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Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions?

Juni 1, 2009 um 1:20 · Gespeichert unter Aktuell, Talks, leadership


Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show how we’re not as rational as we think when we make decisions.
Despite our best efforts, bad or inexplicable decisions are as inevitable as death and taxesand the grocery store running out of your favorite flavor of ice cream. They’re also just as predictable. Why, for instance, are we convinced that „sizing up“ at our favorite burger joint is a good idea, even when we’re not that hungry? Why are our phone lists cluttered with numbers we never call? Dan Ariely, behavioral economist, has based his career on figuring out the answers to these questions, and in his bestselling book Predictably Irrational (re-released in expanded form in May 2009), he describes many unorthodox and often downright odd experiments used in the quest to answer this question.

Ariely has long been fascinated with how emotional states, moral codes and peer pressure affect our ability to make rational and often extremely important decisions in our daily lives — across a spectrum of our interests, from economic choices (how should I invest?) to personal (who should I marry?). At Duke, he’s aligned with three departments (business, economics and cognitive neuroscience); he’s also a visiting professor in MIT’s Program in Media Arts and Sciences and a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight. His hope that studying and understanding the decision-making process can help people lead better, more sensible daily lives.
He produces a weekly podcast, Arming the Donkeys, featuring chats with researchers in the social and natural sciences.
„If you want to know why you always buy a bigger television than you intended, or why you think it’s perfectly fine to spend a few dollars on a cup of coffee at Starbucks, or why people feel better after taking a 50-cent aspirin but continue to complain of a throbbing skull when they’re told the pill they took just cost one penny, Ariely has the answer.“
Daniel Gross, Newsweek

Dan Ariely on our buggy moral code

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It’ about leadership: Coach Wooden

Mai 18, 2009 um 6:48 · Gespeichert unter Aktuell, leadership

With profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. In this inspiring talk he shares the advice he gave his players at UCLA, quotes poetry and remembers his father’s wisdom.

„Coach Wooden is a humble, private man who has selflessly given up his life to make other people’s lives better … John Wooden gave us the necessary tools to overcome the adversity and obstacles that he knew from the beginning would always be in our way. He taught us to find a source of motivation to inspire us to ever higher levels of preparation and work.“
Bill Walton

Coach Wooden läßt uns fühlen, dann verstehen: Erfolg ist viel mehr als Siegen! Ein schöner, ein inspirierender TED-Talk (TED2009).

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Die Slides vom 10.Bildungskongress der Know How AG – 15.Mai 2009

Mai 14, 2009 um 5:36 · Gespeichert unter Aktuell, leadership

Klip Flow Zone Know How Bildungskongress 09 05 15

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Short|Cuts! im Mai

April 16, 2009 um 7:59 · Gespeichert unter Aktuell, Veranstaltungen

samstags|10.30-14.00 Uhr|stuttgart
09.05.2009 – Performance statt Burn Out: Leistungsfähigkeit steigern
16.05.2009 – Walk the Talk: Menschen zu Leistung führen
23.05.2009 – Performance  in der Krise: In Turbulenzen Flow erhalten und Kohärenz schaffen

Stress – chronisch verabreicht - gefährdet die Leistungsfähigkeit unserer Unternehmen, vernichtet Kreativität und zerstört über die Zeit jede persönliche Energie. Wir „brennen aus“ – als Mitarbeiter, als Führungskräfte, als Partner, als Eltern, als Mensch. Garantiert!

Stress – verstanden als negative Belastung – ist unnötig und macht uns dumm. Er ist eine Art biochemische Verschmutzung: Subjektiv getriggert, objektiv in der Wirkung. Der herrschende Geschäftsalltag produziert immer häufiger arbeitssüchtige Helden auf der einen und rundumversorgte Sorgenträger auf der anderen Seite. Mangelnde Usability und gedankenlos angewandte Leistungsmodelle überfordern und unterfordern uns zu gleich: Wir leiden an zu gut gemeinter Optimierung, die einfache biologische Regeln ignoriert und verdummt, statt zu bewegen.

Die Lage ist verzwickt. Es stimmt, wir können den „Gang der Wellen“ nicht einfach ändern, aber wir können die Wellen reiten lernen.

In drei short|cut!-Seminaren – jeweils 3 Stunden – setzen Thomas Staehelin und Katrin Steglich Impulse zum Thema, bieten Fakten, stellen Fragen und skizzieren im Dialog mit Ihnen Ansätze und Wege aus der „Leistungsfalle“: Prägnant, engagiert und motivierend.

– jeweils samstags von 10.30 bis 14.00Uhr im Schrödinger Haus Stuttgart (Feuersee) statt.

Der TeilnahmePreis beträgt 150,00 € incl. 19% MwSt. (pro TN und Seminar)

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