Motivation and Emotional Intelligence
A simple query to Google “How to lift your intelligence?” generated 5 million results suggesting how if you are motivated you can lift your IQ. However I recently came across this blog Smart or determined? Examining the influence of motivation on IQ test performance. In 2011 by Angela Duckworth (of Grit fame) and her colleagues published a meta-analysis that suggested that motivation distorts IQ test performance, thereby challenging the validity of IQ tests as a pure measure of a.....
Read MoreReview of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
I sent out a tweet on 15/3/18 “Just finished the abridged Kindle version of Gibbon's Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire. 1252 pages and each page = 6 Kindle screen shots. Started reading it at the Christmas break.” Back came a tweet asking for a review so here goes. The unabridged book comprises six volumes, 71 chapters and 3675 pages: Volume I (16 chapters) starts with the Antonine Dynasty and finishes with Constantine becoming Emperor. It contains a famous quote of .....
Read MoreMore thoughts on Gender Inequality
[caption id="attachment_1292" align="alignnone" width="428"] Portrait Of Multi-Cultural Business Team In Office[/caption] As International Women’s Day is coming up in four days’ time I thought it would be helpful to make reference to an interesting blog that was just posted by the British Psychological Society (BPS): Male and female bosses share the same “classically masculine” personality traits. The blog describes a study lead by Bart Wille at the University of Antwerp. The resea.....
Read MoreReview of film: Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
There I was sitting on QF24 flying overnight from Bangkok to Sydney when I started to check what films were available. Suddenly I saw the thumbnail, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, and I decided to watch it. For those who do not know him, William Moulton Marston has three claims to fame: Inventor of the Lie Detector; Author of the comic strip character, Wonder Woman; and Author in 1928 of The Emotions of Normal People. The DiSC behavioural model was developed from his.....
Read MoreChris Golis - Author
"Put in a sales perspective, I loved your presentation! I got a lot from what you talked about and I will read your book."
Peter Morris, Executive Officer, Lomax Financial Group
Your presentation on 'Lifting your Level of Emotional Intelligence" to 10 CEOs scored an average 8.9 out of 10 for the topic and 8.5 for the presentation which is great. A couple of the attendees gave you a 10 out of 10, and the comments were:
- Great presentation. Very informative.
- Excellent presentation.
- made me think.
Christi Spring CEO Institute. - web www.ceo.com.au.