John Furey

John Furey

Diversity of Thinking

Embracing Diversity of Thinking: A Catalyst for Inclusion and Innovation. Of all the factors that drive personal and organizational effectiveness, diversity of thinking stands tall as a crucial element in decision-making, team dynamics, leadership, and board effectiveness. It is widely…

Are personality tests useful?

Beyond the craze of personality (and personality tests). Personality tests describe your behavioral traits (in general) and rarely will they tell you something you didn’t already know. Beyond personality, behind personality, and before personality, are the motivating mechanisms that create…

Introversion and Extraversion: real or fake?

There's no such thing as introversion and extraversion

There’s no such thing as introversion and extroversion. Here’s another one of those curious articles about personality and psychology that keep popping up all over the place in major news outlets these days. This one is from Inc. magazine which…

Where yes meets no

The tension between Past and Future Thinking. Communication between Future thinkers and Past thinkers is essential for collaboration, yet here lies a real challenge. The Future thinker’s way of thinking about things—their modus operandi—which is to say yes to opportunities…

Artificial Intelligence, Human Thinking

What happens when two public figures weigh in on a controversial issue? It’s thinking diversity at large! In July of 2017, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, clashed on twitter over their differing…