We have 65,000 thoughts each day; unfortunately, 65% of them are negative. Negative thoughts about ourselves tax our confidence, weaken our immune systems, and preclude us from doing what we want to do. On the other hand, positive thoughts about ourselves strengthen our immune system, motivate us, and help us to accomplish our goals. Not […]
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A CEO of a financial services company felt pressure from the Board to grow the company by winning major, multi-million dollar clients. The CEO instituted a new process for his team, whereby he labeled any prospect over 150 million dollars a “must win” deal and insisted that he be brought in to play a significant
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Martin Kettelhut, PhD, Author, Listen Till You Disappear True leadership is the ability to bring out the best in people and circumstances. Just giving orders is hardly leadership. You need to be able to hear what’s working and what’s not, in order to lead your company to perform at its best. There are three areas
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William M. Dann, Author, Creating High Performers I recently attended a speech by best-selling author Daniel Pink [1] in which he summarized research on shifts in employee motivators. The old “if-then motivators” of giving bonuses for the achievement of goals no longer work. Work has become too complex and is changing too rapidly for such simple
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Sharon M. Weinstein, Chief Wellness Officer, SMW Group LLC “I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” E.B.White How is your day going so far? Are you improving the world, or are you enjoying it?
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Anne Grady, Author, 52 Strategies for Life, Love and Work Every day, businesses of all size lose time, money and productivity when employees get sidetracked by drama due to emotional reactions to workplace situations. As Inc. recently reported in The Shocking Cost of Workplace Conflicts, American workers spend more than two and a half hours per
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Dr. Patricia Thompson, Author, “The Consummate Leader When the buck stops with you, it can be difficult to separate yourself from work. Being on the receiving end of pressure from shareholders, the sense of responsibility to do right by those who report to you, and the ultimate accountability that comes with being at the helm of an
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Shari Sandifer, CEO, Avant Work is stressful. Between deadlines, budgets, meetings and managing different opinions and personalities, it’s easy to get buried under the day’s demands. And for individuals trying to balance their work lives with families and other responsibilities, it becomes all-to-easy to neglect one’s own mental, physical and spiritual well-being. While the expectation in
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Dr. Rebecca Bigler, director of The University of Texas at Austin’s Gender and Racial Attitudes Lab, has done a number of experiments with preschoolers and colored T-shirts. In one, she took a classroom of 4 and 5 year olds and put half in red T shirts and the other half in blue T shirts . The children
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Wouldn’t it be nice if you always had a steady flow of business? A pace that is manageable? Deadlines which are realistic? Forget it. It is not going to happen. It used to be that I could count on certain seasonal rushes. I knew there would be a mad dash to spend money and finish
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