By Ray Williams May 17, 2021 In my 40 years of training, mentoring and coaching leaders I’ve found overconfidence, a critical component of a lack of self-awareness, accounts for a significant percentage of leader failures. Overconfidence is the mother of all...
By Ray Williams May 17, 2021 The violence, cruelty and unfairness shown to us daily by the media could prompt us to believe in humankind’s darker nature. But research on young children has shown that we are not born that way. Anecdotally, anyone who’s spent...
By Ray Williams May 15, 2021 Many super successful people will tell you they were lucky to have been at the right place at the right time. Everyone can’t be at the right place at the right time. According to both fascinating new science highlighted by the MIT...
By Ray Williams May 15, 2021 We know that possessing certain personal traits can help people do better in life – by knuckling down, making the right connections or having the best ideas. A study goes further and asks whether a person’s traits and their background...
By Ray Williams May 13, 2021 People tend to believe that others will come around to their point of view over time, according to findings from a series of studies published in Psychological Science. The findings show that this “belief in a favorable future”...
By Ray Williams May 13, 2021 We often look to people’s faces for signs of how they’re thinking or feeling, trying to gauge whether their eyes are narrowed or widened, whether the mouth is turned up or down. But findings published in Psychological Science,show...
