How Much EQ Does Steve Jobs Really Have (Part 1)
What kicked off this blog was a excellent article by Fiona Smith in the Australian Financial Review (16 November 2009): The downside of being nice. The thrust of the article was that while every management book in recent years has stressed the importance of workplace harmony, there is a counter argument personified by Steve Jobs. Fiona quotes how Bob Sutton describes Steve Jobs as the successful archetypal asshole in his book The No Asshole Rule. I then went on to google Bob Sutton+Steve Jobs a.....
Read MoreIs Craig Thompson a Corporate Psychopath?
Corporate psychopaths are continually in the news. Perhaps the most famous book on corporate psychopaths is Snakes In Suits: When Psychopaths Go To Work by Paul Babiak and Robert D. Hare. In Australia, Dr John Clarke is generally recognised the expert on corporate psychopaths and I have had the pleasure of attending his seminars and reading his books. All of these authors generate a profile of psychopath and now we have both the 1100 page Fair Work Australia report and Thompson’s parliamentary.....
Read MoreHow Do You Recognise a Bernie Madoff?
Bernie Madoff has just been sentenced for 150 years, the maximum allowed. I have just spent a morning to reading about Madoff, and in particular his personality, in various articles. Perhaps the most poignant comment was by a woman whose husband invested and lost money with Madoff: "--My father said, 'Be careful of them [the Madoffs]. This is a big Ponzi scheme.' And that was 15 years ago." How did the father recognise Madoff as a fraud when so many thousands did not? Talk is a big clue and t.....
Read MoreEQ: The Secret of the Professional Poker Player
I recently read a terrific article about professional poker players in The New Yorker called What would Jesus bet? The article features Chris Ferguson, widely regarded by his peers as the best professional poker play in the world and who is nicknamed "Jesus" because of his physical appearance. The reporter believes that Ferguson was successful because of his fluency in mathematics but is corrected by Julio Rodrigues who writes for cardplayer.com. "A lot of players know the math -- but the major.....
Read MoreChris Golis - Author
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