by Paul Quinn | Nov 22, 2024 | Asking - Consumer, Asking - Empowerment, Handling Conflicts, Human Behavior
This is a post about asking that begins, for the sake of analogy, with a seemingly unrelated topic: Crosswalks (bear with me!). Imagine you’re walking in a crosswalk. At the halfway point, you see a driver waiting for you to cross so they can turn. Even though you...
by Paul Quinn | Oct 31, 2024 | Asking - Empowerment, Personal Development
In a famous 1996 study at the University of Chicago, three randomly selected groups were tested on how many basketball free throws they could make. The researcher, Dr. Biasiotto, recorded the results and then instructed the first group to practice shooting free throws...
by Paul Quinn | Oct 29, 2024 | Asking - Empowerment, Human Behavior, Personal Development
What if you could direct your imagination to “put on” a new perspective aligned with the reality you wish to create? This is the first of two posts about using affirmations and visualizations, respectively, in effective ways. In this one, we’ll focus on...
by Paul Quinn | Aug 2, 2023 | Asking - Business, Asking - Empowerment
In this interview, Susan Bennett tells us what it was like to be the original voice of the iPhone assistant, “Siri” … her fear-busting “ask” that changed everything … her experience as a backup singer for Burt Bacharach … and her thoughts on the “happy...
by Paul Quinn | Jul 26, 2023 | Asking - Business, Asking - Empowerment, Asking - Entrepreneurs, Asking - Leadership, Asking - Sales
Brian Little is vice president and global head of corporate human resources for Intel. He previously served in senior human resources roles at companies including Ameritech, Amoco, and Zurich Insurance, and was recognized in 2017 by the industry magazine HRO...
by Paul Quinn | Mar 30, 2023 | Asking - Empowerment, Asking - Relationships, Uncategorized
In her earliest memory of life in Poland, Ida Paluch was three years old when she, her twin brother, Adam, and older sister, Gienia, witnessed a woman, mad with fear, jump from a building to her death to escape forced relocation and inevitable murder by the Nazis. The...
