Posts by Valerie Patrick
The Power of Context to Put Content to Work
The idea for this post about the power of context to put content to work was triggered by my podcast interview with John Vespasian, author of seven books (see episode 12 at http://scienceofsuccess.libsyn.com/podcast), combined with something I had read about in Team Genius: The New Science of High Performing Organizations (by Rich Karlgaard and Michal…
Read MoreHow to Write About Technical Topics Effectively
The idea for this post about how to write about technical topics effectively came from my podcast interview with Dr. Baruch Fischhoff, Howard Heinz University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in both the Department of Social and Decision Sciences and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy (see episode 11 at http://scienceofsuccess.libsyn.com/podcast). In preparing for…
Read MoreMindset and Discipline as a Recipe for Flourishing
The idea for this post about mindset and discipline as a recipe for flourishing came from my podcast interview with Dr. Chris Laszlo, Professor of Organizational Behaviors and Faculty Director for the Fowler Center at Case Western Reserve’s Weatherhead School of Management (Episode 10 at http://scienceofsuccess.libsyn.com/podcast). In the interview, Dr. Laszlo made one comment that…
Read MoreHow Women Can Survive and Thrive Among Men
The Science of Success Podcast interview with Joanna Wolfe (Episode 9 at http://scienceofsuccess.libsyn.com/podcast) got me thinking about how women can survive and thrive among men in male-dominated workplaces. On the one hand, the topic of women surviving and thriving in male-dominated workplaces seems so outdated. Shouldn’t we have solved this challenge by now? On the…
Read MoreSystem Building Skills for Those Who Lead
I wanted to write about system building skills for those who lead as a result of the podcast interview I had with Dr. Terry Yosie, Executive Director of the World Environment Center (listen to and download Episode 8 of the podcast here: http://scienceofsuccess.libsyn.com/podcast; also available on iTunes and Stitcher Radio as “Science of Success: Social…
Read MoreClimate Change Calls for Capabilities Beyond Social
Climate change calls for capabilities beyond social intelligence that I am calling collaboration intelligence. Climate change is a systems challenge with the earth and the earth’s atmosphere as the system. If you don’t take care of all relevant aspects of the system in undertaking actions to adapt to climate change, then you can have unintended…
Read MoreSurprising Secret to Increasing Your Value in the Workplace
The surprising secret to increasing your value in the workplace came from an assessment of the Knowledge Work Framework presented in Episode 6 of the Science of Success Podcast (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/). I became interested in knowledge work because I noticed that over the course of my 25-year corporate career, degree requirements for entry-level jobs had shifted.…
Read MoreNavigating Dangerous Waters at Work to Achieve Success
Navigating dangerous waters at work to achieve success could be the title of my autobiography. I don’t know if it is because I’m hyper aware of the emotions of others or overly sensitive, but I wasted too much energy in non-productive emotional states over my 25-year corporate career. The non-productive emotional state was typically the…
Read MoreFacilitation Perception to End the Misconception
Facilitation perception to end the misconception explores why misconception about what facilitation is persists from the perspective of a professional facilitator. This blog post was inspired by the Science of Success podcast show featuring an interview with Bill Shephard, creative problem solving expert and professional facilitator for the Creative Problem Solving Group (see science-of-success-podcast on…
Read MoreIt Takes a Team to do User-Centered Design
It takes a team to do user-centered design because there are many touch-points between a product or service and a user. For example, for a product, there are the following touch-points: the discovery of the product the buying experience the packaging experience the use of the product the support for use of the product the…
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