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Jun 22
3 min

Are you a leader, or individual contributor?

In 2004, my boss at Texas Instruments sent me to a week of training at the Center for Creative Leadership in Colorado Springs. That week w...

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Yoram Solomon, PhD

Jun 9
2 min

Areas for Improvement...

What I found out when I filled my annual self-assessment incorrectly...

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Yoram Solomon, PhD

May 27
2 min

Beware of using humor during a crisis

A Northwestern University study confirmed with MRI scans that comedy increases activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, a part of the b...

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Yoram Solomon, PhD

Mar 27
4 min

8 Things to do to not lose trust while everyone is working remotely

Using the framework in The Book of Trust, here are a few ideas that would help make the time working remotely efficient and effective, an...

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Yoram Solomon, PhD

Mar 5
3 min

What can you do when a team member cannot be trusted?

The inability to trust a team member can be devastating to a team. Even one untrustworthy member can drag productivity down.

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Yoram Solomon, PhD

Feb 26
2 min

A Tiny Thing You Can Do When You Call Someone That Will Help You Be More Trusted

My wife and I have an arrangement. If she calls me and I can't take the call, I don't answer. However, if this is an emergency, she hangs...

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Yoram Solomon, PhD

Feb 2
2 min

Nurses care about a different kind of fairness.

Read what happened to me when I asked this question at a nurse leadership workshop...

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Yoram Solomon, PhD

Sep 12, 2019
2 min

Why it's Important to be a Trustworthy Customer

You are probably scratching your head now, thinking "wait, what? did he really mean trustworthy customer?" Yes. Yes, I did. You and I wer...

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Yoram Solomon, PhD

Aug 12, 2019
4 min

How Behavioral Economics is Killing Innovation

When my daughter Maya was in middle school, she decided to repeat a behavioral economics experiment featured in Dan Ariely's book Predict...

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Yoram Solomon, PhD

Jul 25, 2019
3 min

The Cause of the 737 MAX Crashes is Lack of Trust

The MCAS software, the lack of training, the waiver of plane re-certification were undoubtedly contributing factors, but not the main reason

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Yoram Solomon, PhD

Jul 22, 2019
2 min

How lack of innovation leads to unemployment

Some believe that robots will take over all our jobs and therefore innovation (specifically in the area of robots) will cause unemploymen...

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Yoram Solomon, PhD

Jul 8, 2019
3 min

When does feedback become too much?

This morning, my daughter and I drove to have her car's oil changed. She asked me to drive, even though she loves driving her car. When I...

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Yoram Solomon, PhD

Jul 2, 2019
2 min

What You Think and Mean vs. What You Really Believe

Part of trust building takes place during every interaction between two people. Trust is being built as a function of the time spent toge...

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Yoram Solomon, PhD

Jun 27, 2019
4 min

An Act of Heroism and Trustworthiness

Up until 6:45, the night flight was smooth. Major Kevin Sweeney leveled the KC135 air tanker at an altitude of 25,000 feet. His mission, ...

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Yoram Solomon, PhD

Feb 25, 2019
2 min

What you need is a Chief Culture Officer

Peter Drucker said that "business has two--and only tow--basic functions: marketing and innovation." Well, your company probably already ...

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Yoram Solomon, PhD

Dec 30, 2018
4 min

You don't have an INNOVATION problem, you have a TRUST problem (Part 3)

In the first part of this article mini-series I demonstrated, based on my original research, that for innovation to exist, you must be ab...

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Yoram Solomon, PhD

Dec 15, 2018
3 min

You don't have an INNOVATION problem, you have a TRUST problem (Part 2)

Through my 2008-10 doctoral research, I found that the biggest problem that non-innovative companies have is lack of trust. In fact, when...

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Yoram Solomon, PhD

Nov 29, 2018
4 min

You don't have an INNOVATION problem, you have a TRUST problem (Part 1)

When I was ready to find a topic for my PhD dissertation research in 2008, my mentor pushed me to find one that I would be proud of. "One...

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Yoram Solomon, PhD

Nov 3, 2018
3 min

The Leadership Failure that Kills Innovation

When I conducted my doctoral research between 2008 and 2010, I fount that autonomy was the strongest single factor that companies and lea...

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Yoram Solomon, PhD

Nov 2, 2018
4 min

Trust me. Buy this.

Why trustworthy salespeople can sell the same thing for almost 30% higher price. I realize more and more that being trustworthy is really...

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