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Term
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Definition
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Accountability, Effective
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Holding a person to their commitments without
making the
Ogre Blunder
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Advisory Coaching
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see Coaching, Advisory
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Aligned Priorities
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see Priorities, Aligned
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Animal nature
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see Our "animal nature"
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Automatic mode of human
activities
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see Auto-self
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Auto-behaviors
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see Auto-self types,
Auto-behaviors
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Auto-behaviors,
Behaving
disruptively
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Auto-self behaviors that undermine the
effectiveness of others; bad habits of commission; e.g. anger outbursts,
micromanagement
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Auto-behaviors,
Blockage to action
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Auto-self lack of consistent action that undermines
the effectiveness of self; habits of omission; e.g., performance reviews,
self-discovery
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Auto-characteristics
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The profile of an individual's auto-self
characteristics – usually revealed using multi-rater (e.g., 360°)
surveys
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Auto-contexts
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see Auto-self types,
Auto-contexts
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Auto-expertise
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see Auto-self types,
Auto-expertise
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Auto-self
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The involuntary, robot-like component of the
bipartite mind
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Auto-self access, Metaphorical
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Metaphors used to identifyindirectly
previously unrecognized auto-
self success factors; uniform-mind as auto-context; "soft"
factors
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Auto-self access, Direct
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New terminology created to
describedirectly the auto-self, as
shown in this glossary; bipartite mind as new auto-context
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Auto-self activities,
Noticing
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see Self-awareness,
Dynamic
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Auto-self activities,
Recognizing
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see Self-awareness,
Static
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Auto-self changes
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Altering an auto-self characteristic; we use it to
help people improve their performance in areas where they involuntarily come up
short
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Auto-self
changes,
Constructing
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Training auto-skills; acquiring auto-expertise;
creating initial auto-contexts; little discomfort
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Auto-self changes,
Reconstructing
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Erasing and replacing obsolete or ineffective
auto-contexts; recontextualizing; high discomfort; see our
services
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Auto-self changes,
Transforming
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Changing an auto-self characteristic; usually
associated with improving an auto-behavior; high discomfort; see our
services
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Auto-self characteristics
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see Auto-characteristics
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Auto-self properties
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see Bipartite mind
Properties
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Auto-self Success factors
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see Success factors,
Auto-self
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Auto-self types
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Four types of auto-self activities that help us
understand the auto-self better and see commonality in seemingly diverse
activities
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Auto-self
types,
Auto-behaviors
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Auto-self driven behaviors; involuntary behaviors;
habits, compulsions, phobias
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Auto-self
types,
Auto-contexts
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Assumptions and beliefs hidden in the auto-self;
appears to us as the way things “really are;" our attitudes, self-image; organizational
cultures
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Auto-self
types,
Auto-skills
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Skills automatically executed by the auto-self such
as with sports, musical instruments, and interpersonal and presentation
skills
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Auto-self
types,
Auto-expertise
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Ability of auto-self to see patterns and
relationships holistically rather than through analysis with thinking-self; “intuition”, “gut”
feelings
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Auto-skills
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see Auto-self types,
Auto-skills
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Behaving disruptively
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see Auto-behaviors, Behaving
disruptively
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Bipartite mind
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The empowering realization that our mind has two
distinct components: auto-self and thinking-self
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Bipartite mind Auto-context |
A new way of seeing performance improvement;
supplants uniform-mind auto-context; opens up vast new frontier
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Bipartite mind Properties
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Description of inner workings of the thinking-self
and the auto-self; lays the foundation for systematic transformations
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Bipartite-mind Theory
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The theory of the human mind that opens a new
frontier in performance improvement leading to sustained success
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Black-box
brain
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Brain's role acknowledged and modeled, but its
complexity and functioning ignored for simplicity in Bipartite-Mind Theory
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Blindsided career derailment
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Auto-self deficiencies often lead to "blindsided"
failures because person does not notice them (an auto-self property)
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Blockage to action
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see Auto-behaviors, Blockage to
action
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Brain-controlled
activities
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see Control center, Brain
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| CDO |
See Chief Demotivational Officer |
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Characteristics of the
mind
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see Auto-self
characteristics
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Chief Demotivational Officer |
Designation for aggressive executive who often looks good but who’s behavior demotivates
colleagues |
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Coaching, Advisory
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Providing timely or specialized information aimed
at the thinking-self; a.k.a. “consulting”
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Coaching, Transformational
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Erase and replace a dysfunctional auto-self
characteristic, often an auto-behavior; see our
services
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Comfort Imperative
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The relentless auto-self force that drives us to
seek pleasure and avoid discomfort; stealthy impulse that compels and repels
us
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Comfort Priorities
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see Priorities, Comfort
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Commitments
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see Declarations,
Commitments
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Communications, Evocative
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Nonverbal communications that evoke feelings that
produce comfort priorities
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Communications, Informative
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Verbal communications that inform the
recipient
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Communications, Nonverbal
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Auto-self controlled evocative communications
including facial expressions, gestures, voice inflections; body language
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Communications, Verbal
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Thinking-self controlled
stories
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Competing Priorities
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see Priorities, Competing
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CompleteLeadership.com
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Website that identifies the reality of the
bipartite mind, creates a theory about it, and builds techniques upon that
theory
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Conditioning
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The generic name for creating or changing something
about an auto-self characteristic; transforming, constructing,
reconstructing
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Conditioning, Classical
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AKA Pavlovian conditioning; create new trigger that
piggybacks on one that creates unconditional response; works on humans &
animals
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Conditioning, Operant
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Environmentally-induced conditioning; behaviorism
associated with
B. F. Skinner; works on humans and animals
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Conditioning, Virtual
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Auto-self conditioning; applied through virtual
consequences previously constructed in auto-self; works on humans only
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Consequences, External
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Rewards and punishments from
environment
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Consequences, Virtual
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Constructed pleasures and discomforts driven by the
auto-self
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Control
center, Brain
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The brain controls
auto-self activities
like holding program for this “robot within”; mind robotically follows brain
commands
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Control
center, Mind
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The mind controls
thinking-self activities; brain subordinately follows mind
commands
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Control center, Shifting
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Normally, control imperceptibly shifts between mind
(thinking-self) and brain (auto-self); but, see Priorities, Competing
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Constructing
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see Auto-self changes,
Constructing
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Coping mechanisms
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Mental tricks we use to help us cope with failures
and setbacks; can help us, but see Evasion gimmicks
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Counteracting
Principle
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Use auto-self feelings to counteract deleterious
drives of the auto-self; “fight fire with fire”; overcomes unfair-fight
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Counteracting blockages,
Path of least discomfort
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Counteracting process that gets something
unpleasant done by making it more uncomfortable to avoid the task; a push process
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Counteracting blockages,
Pleasure overcomes
discomfort
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Counteracting process that causes pleasure of doing
task to overcome discomfort of performing an unpleasant task; a pull process
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Counteracting bad habits,
Path of greatest pleasure
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Counteracting process that makes it more
pleasurable to display the desired behavior than the counterproductive one; a
pull process
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Counteracting bad habits,
Discomfort overpowers drive
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Counteracting process that uses discomfort of
displaying dysfunctional behaviors to overpower the auto-self drive to exhibit it; a
push process
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Crossing auto-context
chasm
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Making a courageous, frightening leap from an
existing auto-context into the unknown of a new auto-context
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Declarations
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Declaring, usually publicly, to accomplish
something important
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Declarations,
Commitments
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Voluntary declarations to achieve a measurable or
verifiable result by a specific time; a powerful way to instill internal
motivation
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Declarations, Intentions
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Declaration to behave a certain way; a powerful
anchor for transformational coaching
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Descriptive Stage
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see Stage, Descriptive
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Direct descriptions
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see Auto-self access,
Direct
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Discomfort overpowers
drive
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see Counteracting bad habits, Discomfort overpowers
drive
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Doing consistently
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Overcoming blockages to action; see Auto-behaviors,
Blockage to action
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Dual Priorities
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see Priorities, Dual
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Dynamic Self-awareness
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Noticing one’s auto-self activities while
involuntarily enacting them; overcomes an auto-self Property; see Self-awareness,
Dynamic
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Effective Accountability
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see Accountability,
Effective
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Empirical Foundation
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see Foundation, Empirical
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Empirically-derived
techniques
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see Improvement techniques,
Empirically-derived
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Escape rituals
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see Evasion gimmicks, Escape
rituals
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Evasion gimmicks
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Misused coping mechanisms; counterproductive
attempts to avoid failure discomfort when corrective actions are needed
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Evasion gimmicks,
Rationalization |
Minimize importance: Replace action with a story that action is not really
needed |
Evasion gimmicks,
Procrastination |
Keep putting off: Acknowledge task; keep it low priority; be "too
busy" |
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Evasion
gimmicks,
Escape rituals
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Divert attention: Do something pleasurable when
faced with an uncomfortable task
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Evasion gimmicks,
Simplistic solutions
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Substitute: Acknowledge need – take related action that does not achieve goal; creates seduction trap
(common in self-help efforts) |
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Evasion gimmicks,
Excuses as reasons
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Pretend: Excuse away lack of action by pretending
you have a real reason; people often fool themselves as well as others
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Evocative Communications
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see Communications,
Evocative
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Experiential workshops
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see Improvement techniques, Experiential
workshops
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External Consequences
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see Consequences, External
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External Motivation
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see Motivation, External
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Fight fire with fire
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Use auto-self to induce feelings to overcome the
discomfort of transformational auto-self change; see Counteracting
Principle.
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Foundation, Empirical
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Experimentation and verification of effectiveness
constitute the foundation for performance improvement techniques
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Foundation, Theoretical
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A theoretical structure constitutes the foundation
for performance improvement techniques; in this case, the bipartite-mind
theory
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Framing realities
realistically
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Aligning auto-contexts with environmental
realities; see Auto-self types, Auto-contexts
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Group-help
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see Improvement techniques, Group
help
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Handling complexity
intuitively
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see Auto-self types,
Auto-expertise
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Hard Success factors
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see Success factors, Hard
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HowTheMindWorks.com
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Website that discusses the bipartite-mind theory of
performance improvement vis-à-vis other studies and theories of the mind
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Human nature
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see Our "human nature"
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Improvement activities,
Teaching
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Providing information for thinking-self;
consulting; advisory coaching; tutoring
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Improvement activities,
Transformational
coaching
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1-1 interactions transform dysfunctional auto-self
characteristics using systematic techniques; escort through discomfort; see
our services
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Improvement activities,
Experiential workshops
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Workshops where facilitators induce and manage
experiences to aid transforming shared auto-self characteristics; see our services
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Improvement activities,
On-the-job
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"Experience", “know-how” building; creation of
auto-expertise; structured assignment rotations; minimum discomfort
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Improvement techniques,
Learning |
Thinking-self acquiring knowledge from information; minimal
discomfort |
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Improvement activities,
Action learning
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Intense group activity with high potential people
working on a critical business issue with a tough deadline; planned
discomfort
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Improvement activities,
Self-help
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Attempting to transform an auto-behavior without
external help; transformation discomfort often causes failure due to unfair
fight
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Improvement activities,
Group
help
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People with similar interests or problems helping
each other improve, normally without a professional facilitator; guided through
discomfort
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Improvement techniques,
Constructing
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Auto-self acquiring new abilities through
conditioning, practice, or mimicking; auto-skills or initial auto-contexts; little
discomfort
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Improvement techniques,
Reconstructing
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Erasing and replacing counterproductive
auto-contexts; usually creates significant discomfort, which often blocks crossing
chasm
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Improvement techniques,
Transforming
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Erasing and replacing dysfunctional auto-behaviors;
creates discomfort that can block transformation; coaches alleviate
discomfort
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Indirect construction
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see Improvement techniques,
Constructing
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Indirect reconstruction
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see Improvement techniques,
Reconstructing
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Informative Communications
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see Communications,
Informative
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Intentions
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Resolving to enact a particular behavior; see
Declarations, Intentions
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Internal motivation
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see Motivation, internal
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Internal Reality wars
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Conflicts between two internal realities; any
combination of auto-self and thinking-self conflict; a.k.a. cognitive
dissonance
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Involuntary human
activities
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see Auto-self
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Knowledge, explicit
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Thinking-self knowledge
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Knowledge, Tacit
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Non-explicit knowledge; In
The Knowledge Creating Company, includes auto-contexts, auto-skills, and
auto-expertise
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Leadership
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Auto-self part of getting things done through
others; “management” is name for thinking-self component of getting things
done
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Leading effectively
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Displaying the auto-self characteristics to move
people forward;
see Auto-self types, Auto-skills
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Learning
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Acquiring new knowledge; see Improvement
techniques, Learning
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Locus of
control
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Mind for thinking-self; brain for auto-self; see
Control center entries
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Metaphoric Stage
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see Stage, Metaphoric
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Metaphorical
identifications
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see Auto-self access,
Metaphorical
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Mind-controlled activities
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see Control center, Mind
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Mind versus
Brain
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Focus on intangible mind not tangible brain for
performance improvement
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Motivation, external
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Environmentally produced motivation (promises of
rewards; threats of punishments)
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Motivation, internal
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Auto-self driven motivation; feel great about
meeting commitments; feel terrible about missing commitments
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Motivator of action, Feelings
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The auto-self controls actions through feelings
(pleasure and discomfort)
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Motivator of action,
Thoughts
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The thinking-self motivates action through
intentional thoughts such as strategies, goals, plans, and task lists
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Mystical
techniques |
A minimalist approach relying on the placebo effect for any help. The antithesis of the grounded
techniques described here |
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Nonverbal Communications
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see Communications,
Nonverbal
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Noticing Auto-self
activities
|
see Auto-self activities,
Noticing
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Ogre blunder
|
Creating discomfort associated with your
communication rather with the failure of person you are trying to change
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Our "uniquely
human nature"
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Our thinking-self; stories, thoughts,
intentions
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Our "animal
nature"
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Our auto-self; mostly shared with other
animals
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Our "human
nature"
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Integration of our "uniquely human nature" and our
"animal nature"
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Path of least discomfort
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see Counteracting blockages, Path of least
discomfort
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Path of greatest pleasure
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see Counteracting bad habits, Path of greatest
pleasure
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People process
|
The name used for the auto-self in
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things
Done by Bossidy and Charan
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Performance improvement
|
The general name for improving workplace
performance; see Improvement entries
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Performance improvement,
Systematic
|
Systematic performance improvement techniques built
upon robust theoretical structure that maximizes results across people,
situations
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| Pinnacles |
A way to visualize the isolation & difficulty of changing
auto-contexts (crossing chasm to new Pinnacle); a new way to view
paradigms
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Pinnacle of success
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Double entendre: Peak of success and the
auto-context (bipartite-mind model) that enables reaching that peak
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Placebo
effect |
Any help that comes from providing hope and support without applying any techniques that specifically
transform the auto-self |
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Pleasure overcomes
discomfort
|
see Counteracting blockages, Pleasure overcomes
discomfort
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Priorities, Dual
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The fact that we have two independent types of
priorities
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Priorities, Success
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Priorities set by thinking-self through goals,
strategies, and action plans
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Priorities, Comfort
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Priorities set by auto-self. These priorities
driven by feelings rather than intentions; compels for pleasure; repels for
discomfort
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Priorities, Aligned
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When auto-self priorities align with thinking-self
priorities – a major goal of transformational coaching
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Priorities, Competing
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When comfort and success priorities compete or
collide – often leads to (blinded) failure; an insidious barrier to sustained
success
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Procrastination
|
see Evasion gimmicks,
Procrastination
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Properties of the
auto-self
|
The inner workings of the auto-self; see Bipartite
mind, Properties
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Properties of the mind
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see Bipartite mind,
Properties
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Push process
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Using discomfort to counteract a comfort priority
that opposes a success priority; see Counteracting entries above
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Pull process
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Using pleasure to counteract an adverse comfort
priority; see Counteracting entries above
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Rationalization
|
see Evasion gimmicks,
Rationalization
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Reality wars
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see Internal Reality wars
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Reasons vs. Excuses
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see Evasion gimmicks, Reasons vs.
Excuses
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Recognizing Auto-self
activities
|
see Auto-self activities,
Recognizing
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Reconstructing
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see Auto-self changes,
Reconstructing
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Recontextualizing
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Erasing and replacing an obsolete or ineffective
auto-context; see Auto-self changes; reconstructing
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Replacing obsolete
auto-contexts
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Recontextualizing; crossing chasm to new Pinnacle;
shifting paradigms; see Auto-self changes, Reconstructing
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Robot within
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The way our auto-self seems to work
robot-like
|
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Robot-like auto-self
|
Auto-self acts like a robot whose program the
thinking-self has only indirect access for reprogramming
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Seduction trap
|
Succumbing to lure of apparent change without
results; common self-help failure mode; see Evasion gimmicks, Simplistic
solutions
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Self-awareness, Dynamic
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Noticing an auto-self activity while enacting
it.
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Self-awareness, Static
|
Becoming aware of (recognizing) a stable or static
auto-self characteristic; often revealed using multi-rater (e.g., 360°) surveys; see
our services
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Self-help
|
see Improvement activities,
Self-help
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Self-image
|
Hidden, mostly implicit, auto-context beliefs about
our characteristics; feedback opposing our self-image creates a reality
war
|
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Simplistic solutions
|
see Evasion gimmicks, Simplistic
solutions
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Soft Success factors
|
see Success factors, Soft
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Stage, ignorance
|
Naïve stage before an important concept that needs
management is even identified. Metaphorical stage emerges to identify
issues
|
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Stage,
Metaphorical
|
The first stage in managing a newly identified
phenomenon; it uses metaphors to identify the concepts within an
existing auto-context
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Stage,
Descriptive
|
When the metaphorical stage reaches a point of
diminishing returns, we need to describe the phenomenon within a
new auto-context
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Static Self-awareness
|
see Self-awareness, Static
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Success factors, Auto-self
|
Success factors controlled by auto-self, such as
interpersonal skills, beneficial work habits, realistic self-image
|
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Success factors, Thinking-self
|
Success factors controlled by thinking-self, such
as designing, accounting, and marketing
|
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Success factors, Hard
|
A metaphorical name to indentify thinking-self
success factors
|
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Success factors, Soft
|
A metaphorical name to indentify auto-self success
factors
|
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Success Priorities
|
see Priorities, Success
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Systematic improvement
|
see Performance improvement,
Systematic
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Tacit Knowledge
|
see Knowledge, Tacit
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The "box"
|
Auto-context; as in "thinking outside the
box"
|
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Theoretically-derived
techniques
|
see Improvement techniques,
Theoretically-derived
|
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Theoretical Foundation
|
see Foundation,
Theoretical
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Thinking-self
|
The voluntary, intentional, knowledge-based part of
the bipartite mind
|
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Thinking-self properties
|
see Bipartite-mind
Properties
|
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Thinking-self Success
factors
|
see Success factors,
Thinking-self
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Transformable organization
|
An organization that has instilled ability to
transform undesired
auto-behaviors and reconstruct obsolete cultural
artifacts
|
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Transformable person
|
A person who acquired ability (usually with help)
to transform dysfunctional habits and reconstruct obsolete auto-contexts
|
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Transformation facilitators
|
People who transform many people on common issues
in experiential workshops; see Improvement techniques, Experiential
workshops
|
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Transformational Coaching
|
see Coaching,
Transformational
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Transforming
|
Changing an auto-self characteristic see Auto-self
changes, Transforming
|
|
Transforming
auto-behaviors
|
Erasing and replacing dysfunctional habits; see
Improvement techniques,
Transforming
|
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Trusted helper
|
Someone who can help guide you through the
discomfort of transformational change
|
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Unfair-fight
|
Occurs when the thinking-self attempts to overpower
the auto-self; the unfair-fight causes most self-help transformations to
fail
|
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Uniquely human nature
|
see Our "uniquely human
nature"
|
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Verbal Communications
|
see Communications, Verbal
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Virtual Consequences
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see Consequences, Virtual
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