Browsing Archive: May, 2010

Powerful people are better liars?

Posted by The Minnesota Student Leadership Seminar Team on Tuesday, May 25, 2010,
In the May 2010 Harvard Business Review Magazine, researcher Dana Carney was called upon to explain her finding that "A sense of power buffers individuals from the stress of lying and increases their ability to deceive others."

Carney's description of her research and her findings is by her own account "troubling."

We measured subjects on five variables that indicate lying—involuntary shoulder shrugs, accelerated speech, the level of the stress hormone cortisol in their saliva, cognitive impa...
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An Athlete of Character

Posted by The Minnesota Student Leadership Seminar Team on Wednesday, May 12, 2010,
A few years ago, I had the opportunity to be an assistant coach for a high school girl's swimming team.  The talent on the team was impressive.  Many swimmers had a chance at going to the State tournament...and they knew it. 

There were three seniors on the team.  All three were elected as the captains of the team.  All three were among the top swimmers on a team that had not one stand-out, but many. 

As we got to the midpoint of the season and the swimmers had several blow-out meets under th...
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