Warning! Being A Leader Is Hazardous To Your Mental Health
Throughout history people have glorified being a leader. In ancient cultures, they deified leaders. Tell anyone he is a leader and it’s... Read More
Dealing with Stress of Status Climbing and Falling
Posted on03 Aug 2015
Tagshealth, change, control, Scientific American, status, The Economist, socializing, Carnegie Mellon University, self-control
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Humans work to better themselves. This can happen in absolute terms such as money. It also happens in relative terms such as... Read More
Who Are the Always Late Personality Types?
Posted on13 Jul 2015
Tagshealth, multi-tasking, optimism, Personality, procrastination, Real-time personality assessment, time, meetings, Real-time Personality Assessment Series
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Lateness to meetings costs money. This adds to the waste for which most meetings are known. Lateness has many reasons. They include... Read More
Feeling Powerful at Work Can Be Done This Way
Posted on22 Jun 2015
TagsAdam D. Galinsky, control, fear, feelings, health, Performance, power, pressure, Velten Mood Induction Procedure, Joris Lammers, David Dubois, Derek Rucker, Jack Nicklaus, compliment
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Feeling powerful at work can be hard. People can drag us down. They often do so without knowing it. Work is harder.... Read More
Pretty Health Care Dilemma
Posted on29 Dec 2014
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There is a link between our emotions and health. If we feel emotionally good, we tend to have better health. Our health... Read More
Leadership, The Secret (Pt 9): Problems Defining & Studying
Posted on10 Jul 2014
Tagsdefinitions, health, leadership, Performance, Twitter, Leadership - The Secret Series, Greger Wikstand, Capgemini, Jaana Kuoppala, Anne Lamminpää, Juha Liira, Harri Vainio
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Greger Wikstand, a Capgemini consultant (plus much more), and I exchanged Tweets on my post, “Leadership, The Secret (Pt 6): Scientifically Unproven.”... Read More
Placebo Management (Pt 5): Emotions, Health, Performance
How we feel about ourselves affects us. It influences our health and decisions. Now, as reported in the article, “Think Yourself Well”... Read More
Difficulty: Better Retention, Deeper Understanding
Posted on31 Jan 2013
Tagsmuscle analogy, Blue Oyster Cult, KISS Principle, training, Thoughts, power, listen, learn, knowledge, Intelligent Life, Ian Leslie, health
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Lifting light weights with little effort doesn’t develop our muscles; lifting heavy weights with difficulty does. However, for some reason we believe... Read More
Cooperation vs. Self-interest (Pt 6): Incentives & Rats
Posted on26 Dec 2011
Tagscooperation, Cooperation vs Self-interest Series, dog-eat-dog world, extrinsic, Harvard Business Review, health, intrinsic, Lily Tomlin, money, negative, positive, rat race, rats, rewards, self-interest, subconscious, The Unselfish Gene, understanding, Yochai Benkler
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In Part 4 of this series, I discussed the positivity of intrinsic rewards in the workplace. Let’s now address the negative impact... Read More
Beauty as Power (Pt 3): Appreciation
Posted on19 May 2011
Tagsamputation, antiques, appreciation, beauty, Beauty as Power Series, gangrene, Hang 'Em High, health, heirlooms, learn, maggot, Maggot Therapy, medical, memorabilia, men, nurses, subjective, teach, Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer fence painting, Witness, women
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My Beauty as Power posts have generated emails regarding teaching what beauty is. Unfortunately, even though beauty is extremely subjective, we’re often... Read More
