by Dr. Jeff Van Meter | Jul 2, 2021 | General
If you go to someone’s house, knock on the door and they refuse your offer, yelling and calling them names is not likely to achieve the results you desire. It may rationalize (in your mind) why that person rejected what you were selling, but you are wrong about...
by Dr. Jeff Van Meter | Jun 18, 2021 | Leadership
Back in the 90’s, I participated in a research project run by the University of Chicago. While the specifics are a bit fuzzy, I remember it involved a group of around 100 of us from a variety of backgrounds in the social sciences. There may have been business...
by Dr. Jeff Van Meter | Jun 11, 2021 | General
Back in the late ’80s, I worked for Accenture. They weren’t called Accenture then, they were the consulting arm of Arthur Andersen. Right as I started, they were forming a separate partnership called Andersen Consulting, then they fully separated and...
by Dr. Jeff Van Meter | May 21, 2021 | General, Human Leader, Leadership
You may have noticed I like to look up the definition of words. Maybe it goes back to the 1970s when my family had a Reader’s Digest subscription (did every family?). Reader’s Digest had a regular feature called “It Pays to Increase Your...
by Dr. Jeff Van Meter | May 18, 2021 | General
I’ve been hearing that question a lot lately. And it’s not so much a question as a statement. With two college students home for a short time and a third in high school, my children don’t take comments from us without making a comment in return....
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