Many people shy away from the idea of making decisions based on stereotypes. Why? Stereotype has a negative connotation. But a stereotype is simply a generalization about how a group of people behaves ...

If you want to improve your aerobic capacity, play full-court basketball, not softball. To improve your analytical skills, learn to play chess or bridge, not Chutes and Ladders. If you really want to ...

"All the employees are feeling left out" "Everyone is overwhelmed." “I can't tell you who said it, but I thought you would like to know." Generalizations in a workplace: We’ve all heard them at one ...

There are some guiding generalizations that help me understand this business of ours. One way to describe a generalization might be to say that it is an extension of the notion of nonspecific criteria ...