Jamil Zaki

Dec 4, 2024 | businessandamerica.com | Jamil Zaki

Negativity attracts attention and is often equated with intelligence, so it’s no surprise that leaders often feel they need to focus on what might go wrong. That kind of defensive posture can be helpful, in that it allows leaders and organizations to detect problems and threats, but it can also narrow your focus, and in so doing reduce your creativity and make it hard for you to recognize opportunities.

Dec 4, 2024 | hbr.org | Jamil Zaki

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Nov 23, 2024 | time.com | Jamil Zaki

IdeasBy Jamil ZakiNovember 23, 2024 7:00 AM ESTZaki, PhD., is a professor of psychology at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab. He is the author of Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human GoodnessIn a letter to his wife, Olga, the playwright and political dissident Václav Havel wrote, “Hope is a dimension of the spirit.

Oct 7, 2024 | behavioralscientist.org | Jamil Zaki

When I describe “cynics,” you might conjure up a certain type of person: the toxic, smirking misanthrope, oozing contempt. But they are not a fixed category, like New Zealanders or anesthesiologists. Cynicism is a spectrum. We all have cynical moments, or in my case, cynical years. The question is why so many of us end here even if it hurts us. If cynicism were a pill, its warning label would list depression, heart disease, and isolation. In other words, it’d be a poison.

Oct 7, 2024 | hbritalia.it | Jamil Zaki

CINQUECENTO ANNI FA, scrivendo Il Principe, Nicolò Machiavelli offriva consigli ai leader che cercavano di accrescere il loro potere. “Servirebbe [al Principe] apparire pio, fedele, umano, vero, religioso, e anche esserlo”, scrisse, “ma solo se è disposto, qualora fosse necessario, ad agire in modo opposto”. In altre parole, non tenetevi stretti i vostri valori, perché comunque non lo farà nessun altro.