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1. Become Pygmalion-Breathe Life Into Your Inanimate Sculpture. January 20, 2012 Animation is something that fascinates a lot of people. Doubtlessly, the children are purely mesmerized by animation but the present day animation industry has developed to the extent that there is now that is called the world of 3d animation. Yes by virtue of having such a form of animation you can now have things that look almost real on your tv screen. There was a time when sculptures appealed to us so much for the beauty and reality that it proudly and exclusively portrayed. All ideas could be easily sculpted to give concrete shape. What they lacked though was life. Let us say that if... (read more) Author: Eric Peachy

2. Leaders Have Great Expectations November 19, 2011 "Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great." — Ralph Waldo Emerson An old adage asks, "How am I expected to soar with the eagles when I'm surrounded by a bunch of turkeys?" This is a common victim statement, often heard from underperforming managers. Leaders see people as they could be – as eagles in training. Managers simply see them as turkeys. Research shows that both get what they expect. In his Harvard Business Review classic "Pygmalion in Management," J. Sterling Livingston draws upon the ancient Greek myth of Pygmalion, a sc... (read more) Author: Jim Clemmer

3. How You Perceive Yourself Affects How Well You Learn May 18, 2011 Is it possible that your mental performance hinges on how you think people perceive you or how you perceive yourself? Professor Robert Rosenthal of Harvard University discovered many years ago how powerfully your perceptions of people can affect their behavior. The same principle applies to your perception of yourself. Rosenthal and his colleague Lenore Jacobson, in 1968 reported a study of what they called Pygmalion in the Classroom. The title refers to the George Bernard Shaw play about the way in which a linguist shaped the speech of a Cockney flower girl. Rosenthal and Jacobson d... (read more) Author: Martin Mak

4. Employee Coaching October 07, 2010 A lot has been written about why managers should coach employees. A lot also has been written on how to coach employees. You can find many articles on the Pygmalion Effect and the Galatea Effect, which explain how employee coaching works. Very few articles help you know when to coach employees. That's what this article does. Before Coaching Employees Most of the time, a manager should not coach their employees. To understand that statement, it helps to know what employee coaching is and what employee coaching is not. Giving employees the knowledge and skills they need to perform their job t... (read more) Author: john milton

5. Good Or Bad, What Teachers Expect From Students They Generally Get! October 06, 2010 Introduction Most teachers know a little bit about the Pygmalion effect, or the idea that one's expectations about a person can eventually lead that person to behave and achieve in ways that confirm those expectations (Brehm & Kassin, 1996). Everyone who has seen George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion or viewed the movie My Fair Lady remembers Eliza Doolittle's remarkable transformation, due to Professor Higgins' beliefs (i.e., expectations of her). Although first widely presented to educators in Rosenthal and Jacobson's Pygmalion in the Classroom (1968), few educators understand exactly how to... (read more) Author: Walter Richardson

6. The Pygmalion Effect - Managing the Power of Expectation April 26, 2010 The basketball player stands at the free throw line and he just can't stop thinking about how he all his shots have been short today and sure enough the ball clanks off the front of the rim. The actor stands on the stage and all he can think about is how he is going to forget his lines, even though he has them completely memorized, and sure enough he can't remember them at the most important moment. The man steps up to the podium to give a speech scared to death that he is going to stutter and sure enough he does. The mind is a powerful thing and seems to be able to affect our actions whether ... (read more) Author: Charlie Bentson King

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