Kenneth Christian
Kenneth W. Christian, Ph. D., is a licensed psychologist with more than a quarter century of experience helping individuals, and organizations and their leaders maximize potential in order to maximize gains in productivity and innovation.He founded the Maximum Potential Project, and is author of Your Own Worst Enemy: Breaking the Habit of Adult Underachievement.
Articles by this Author
What's wrong with goal-setting
- By Kenneth Christian
- Published 08/25/2006
- Achievement / Vocation
Talking about goals won't get you there any more than going to church
will
get you to heaven. If you do not passionately believe in where you are
going, don't give goal-setting a bad name by using the word goal to
describe
listless me too ism.
Accelerating Innovation: The Human Element in Managing Change
- By Kenneth Christian
- Published 08/25/2006
- Achievement / Vocation
Businesses must adapt in order to survive. It is a law. Businesses,
however, still too often invest resources in technology, systems and
hardware related to change efforts, without investing similarly in
managing the associated human factors.
Striving for achievement
- By Kenneth Christian
- Published 08/25/2006
- Achievement / Vocation
In this interview, he talks about many factors that "tell us what we
can
do if we're this gender, or this color or whatever," and that these
forces
"endure into our adulthood... that move us toward accepting
what
is going on around us, and what others do, as the way it ought to be.
The
term 'over-achiever' means you are 'out of line.'"
