By Ronda Muir on Posted in Conflict,Culture,Decision-Making,Emotional Intelligence,Leadership,Management,Recruitment,TeamworkIf you are thinking of applying to the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, you will now have to demonstrate you have some emotional intelligence skills. Last month, the Tuck School announced that it would henceforth look for applicants who, in addition to being smart and accomplished, possess two other qualities: nice and aware. Or, as… Continue Reading
By Ronda Muir on Posted in Conflict,Decision-Making,Emotional Intelligence,Professional Development,Risk Management,UncategorizedGiven the recent post about the power of crowdsourcing in predicting judicial decisions, for those who go against the group, there is another intriguing result: their brains light up in the amygdala, the emotional center of the brain. In “Why Do People Follow the Crowd?” a recent groundbreaking experiment found that when people “go along… Continue Reading
By Ronda Muir on Posted in Books,Client Service,Decision-Making,Emotional Intelligence,Professional Development,Risk Management,UncategorizedIn an interesting recent study entitled “Crowdsourcing Accurately and Robustly Predicts Supreme Court Decisions,” the conclusion is, as advertised, that “crowdsourcing outperforms both the commonly accepted ‘always guess reverse’ model and the best-studied algorithmic models.” Using a dataset and analysis that represents one of the largest explorations of recurring human prediction to date, the accuracy of prediction… Continue Reading
By Ronda Muir on Posted in Books,Culture,Decision-Making,Emotional Intelligence,Productivity,UncategorizedAs discussed in Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence, Facebook has figured in a number of projects touching on emotional intelligence. First, since Mark Zuckerberg evidently believes that, “What [members] really want is the ability to express empathy,” Facebook introduced a “dislike” button for users to show their empathy by responding to sad news. Facebook has also used access… Continue Reading
By Ronda Muir on Posted in Books,Culture,Decision-Making,Emotional Intelligence,Ethics,Risk Management,WellnessNow that we’ve made it past Halloween with its tricks and treats, let’s turn to some everyday scariness. Nearly half of the respondents (45% of 800) to the October monthly survey of the National Judicial College (NJC) alumni indicated they have suffered from secondary traumatic stress (STS), defined as “the emotional duress of hearing about the firsthand… Continue Reading
