Jeff Kaplan

Get your Assets in Gear… The Activity-Achievement Correlation

New research has linked higher levels of physical activity with superior academic performance among grade-schoolers. More activity at recess correlated with reading prowess and involvement in organized sports added up to arithmetic superiority. Interestingly, the results didn’t seem to matter much amongst the females in the study. Are girls generally more active to begin with? […]

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I Know Who You Are, Saw What You Did and Know What You’re Planning…

Researchers examined 500 million tweets (that’s right a whole day’s worth for Justin Bieber) to develop algorithms with the power to predict behavior–hours in advance. A standard social media post includes when you posted, who you’re with, where you are, etc. Algorithms applied to social media data may allow researchers to predict what you are

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Am I Selling or Are You Buying?

A friend of mine, who is Senior IT Executive in Mexico City, wrote me recently asking the age-old question, do salespeople and marketers sell or do customers buy? We’ve asked this question to hundreds of sales people around the globe and here’s the consensus: Nobody likes to be sold anything and most everyone loves to

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Are you a Giver or a Taker?

Studies have shown that personality plays an important part in exchanging knowledge. Adam Grant at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, created a personality measure to determine people’s natural tendency toward interpersonal knowledge exchange. He found that most people can be classified into one of three groups: givers, matchers and takers:Givers: not only

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Want it Now or Later?

A study in the journal Psychological Science showed that there is a correlation between the feeling of gratitude and financial impatience. The team of researchers assessed impatience by having people choose between instant gratification (receiving $54 now) or being rewarded for waiting longer ($80 in 30 days). Before making their decision, participants were randomly assigned

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