(Extracted from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) Isaacson said, “One of his strengths as a thinker, if not as a parent, was that he had the ability, and the inclination, to tune out all distractions, a...
(Excerpt from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) Another study, titled “Tell Me What I Did Wrong,” showed that a shift takes place when people are on the path to expertise. Novices seek and need positive...
(Excerpt from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) Incompetence is a problem that inexperienced people have, and all things being equal, we don’t entrust inexperienced people with all that much power or...
(Extracted from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) … there’s an 80/20 rule of sorts in networking. You probably met the vast majority of your friends through a handful of “superfriends”—the...
(Extracted from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) So there are successful extroverts and introverts and the world definitely needs both, but chances are, you’re not really either one. Yes, one-third of...
(Extracted from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) Whether an introvert or an extrovert is the better leader depends on whom they are leading. When employees are passive, the social, energetic extroverts...
(Extracted from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) This is where Robert Axelrod got started. With the Cold War raging between the United States and the USSR, he wanted to explore what it takes to get people...
(Extracted from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) When Wharton School professor Adam Grant looked at who ended up at the bottom of success metrics, he found an awful lot of nice guys—“Givers.” In...
(Extracted from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) Gautam Mukunda speculated that the reason for the inconsistency in the research was there are actually two fundamentally different types of leaders. The...
(Excerpt from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) Marc Andreessen spoke at Stanford, saying: . . . the venture capital business is 100 percent a game of outliers, it is extreme outliers . . . We have this...
