Richard Wiseman

Praise and the Art of Management

In his excellent recent book "59 Seconds: Think a little, Change a lot", Professor Richard Wiseman describes research done in the 1990s into the effect of praise on children. The investigation carried out at Columbia University involved over 400 children between 10 and 12 and from a range of backgrounds. The key finding of a …

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59 seconds: Think a little, change a lot

Richard Wiseman's "59 Seconds" is an excellent book that I thoroughly recommend. Interesting, amusing, authoritative, useful and easy to read – it fulfils pretty much all of my requirements for great non-fiction. Over the years, I've used a lot of the methods and approaches discussed in it, and as a practitioner it's really handy to …

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