Humans In Business

By Rebel Brown

How to Stop Taking Things Personally

<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://rebelbrown.com/2019/09/27/how-to-stop-taking-things-personally/"></div>We are all wired to take things personally. A lot of us also want to stop taking things personally. Many of us experience this wiring all the time. Your boss is discussing a problem in your team, when your internal voice asks, “Is he talking about me? What did I do?” You overhear a nasty […]<div class="at-below-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://rebelbrown.com/2019/09/27/how-to-stop-taking-things-personally/"></div>

By Rebel Brown

Corporate Cult vs Culture

<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://rebelbrown.com/2019/09/26/corporate-cult-vs-culture/"></div>Great corporate culture is a key to sustainable business. Yet corporate culture is often a thinly-veiled front for a corporate cult. When a group of people have excessive admiration for, and willingness to follow, a particular person or belief, it’s a cult. We all know about drinking the koolaid, right? Think about the following business […]<div class="at-below-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://rebelbrown.com/2019/09/26/corporate-cult-vs-culture/"></div>

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Why Science Says You Should Trust Your Gut

<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://rebelbrown.com/2019/09/09/why-you-should-trust-your-gut/"></div>How often do you trust your gut? How often do you ignore it? Mind science has now proven why it’s a good bet to trust your gut. Your gut may be telling you not to take that deal. But you need the business, so you do it anyway. Three months later you’re wishing you’d listened […]<div class="at-below-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://rebelbrown.com/2019/09/09/why-you-should-trust-your-gut/"></div>

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Why Good Employees Leave

<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://rebelbrown.com/2019/08/21/why-good-employees-leave/"></div>We’re all wondering why good employees leave. The cost of recruiting and retraining, combined with the loss of knowledge, can be devastating to any organization. Thanks to the internet, key resources find other positions with relative ease. But it’s not just the easy access to other roles that compels your employees leave. That’s a bias […]<div class="at-below-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://rebelbrown.com/2019/08/21/why-good-employees-leave/"></div>

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10 Power Shifts to Better Business Decisions

<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://rebelbrown.com/2019/08/19/better-business-decisions/"></div>Better business decisions, or lack of, define your business success. Not your competition. The thing is, we are humans in business.In today’s stress-filled world, our innate bias is constantly triggered. That’s not a good thing. Certain bias significantly limits our ability to see the full reality of a situation to make better business decisions. For […]<div class="at-below-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://rebelbrown.com/2019/08/19/better-business-decisions/"></div>

By Rebel Brown

How to Use Conformity for Business Advantage

<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://rebelbrown.com/2019/08/09/conformity-and-business-advantage/"></div>We’ve all seen conformity used to create business advantage.., just look at branding. How can we use the conformity instincts in our minds to create business advantage? Specifically, how do we leverage the brain’s chemical responses to conformity? After all, we get a pleasure chemical when we conform and a threat chemical when we don’t. […]<div class="at-below-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://rebelbrown.com/2019/08/09/conformity-and-business-advantage/"></div>

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3 PowerShifts for Idle Minds

<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://rebelbrown.com/2019/08/07/3-ways-shift-idle-minds/"></div>We’ve all heard that “idle minds are the devil’s workshop.” A recent discovery in mind science demonstrated what happens with our idle minds. It looks like the old saying is, well, true. Here’s the quick scoop: In a study at the University of Virginia, subjects were placed alone in rooms and told to sit still […]<div class="at-below-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://rebelbrown.com/2019/08/07/3-ways-shift-idle-minds/"></div>

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Why More is Not Better

<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://rebelbrown.com/2019/08/06/more-is-not-better/"></div>We’ve also been trained that more is better. Mind science now tells us that more is not better, especially in sales and marketing. In fact, our long laundry lists actually reduce our impact on our audience. Why More is Not Better I spent years and years guiding my clients to create long lists of features and benefits… […]<div class="at-below-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://rebelbrown.com/2019/08/06/more-is-not-better/"></div>

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30 Seconds a Day to Boost Your Brain!

<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://rebelbrown.com/2019/08/03/30-seconds-a-day-to-boost-your-brain/"></div>What do I mean by boost your brain? What if you could spend less than 30 seconds a day and get these results? Take in more information – what you read, hear or see. Remember more of what you take in – what you read, see and hear. Respond more quickly to questions or issues […]<div class="at-below-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://rebelbrown.com/2019/08/03/30-seconds-a-day-to-boost-your-brain/"></div>

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Brain Like a Sieve

<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://rebelbrown.com/2019/07/13/brain-like-a-sieve/"></div>We all have a brain like a sieve. It’s how our mind is designed to manage the enormous volume of data we take in every single second. The challenge in our modern world is that this sieve design results in defective data that skews our experience, our supposed facts and our decision making. Here’s how […]<div class="at-below-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://rebelbrown.com/2019/07/13/brain-like-a-sieve/"></div>