Archive for April, 2009
"Laughing at our Stress"
Watching Jon Stewart on The Daily Show several nights ago I was struck with his capacity as a humorist. He took fear about the swine flu outbreak and brought it to a universal level. First, he talked about himself, how grateful he was to get outside and exercise on a...
Read MoreLight Up Your Life
“Economically induced stress” is affecting everybody. It grabs us when we go to the grocery store or think about taking a summer vacation. At work most folks are feeling the strain of doing more with less; much, much, less. Employees are sitting at desks with heads down and you can hear mutterings...
Read MoreBNET: "Is Your Firm Cost-Cutting To Death?"
Need to cut back? How about cutting back on back-biting, gossip, human resource complaints, in your face arguing, and legal issues. In my book “Dont Bring It to Work” I show why most workplaces are rife with negativity and tension. And with the economy causing stress to hit the hot...
Read MoreBNET: "What Does Brain Evolution Mean for Business?"
If we take seriously the research in brain evolution words like reciprocity, cooperation, tolerance, and helping will become a vital part of the lexicon. We can move away from the trappings of success through “stuff” and begin to look towards happiness as being part of something greater than ourselves. We...
Read MoreThe Age of Altruism
During times of vast change Charles Dickens dictum “It is the best of times, it is the worst of times” is right. We are in what can be called the “ugly middle” of economic turmoil where we cannot turn back to the way it was and the new way is still...
Read MoreThe Best and The Worst
It is the time of “the envelope please!” No, not the Oscars, college acceptances. Those innocuous white envelopes carry within the future of so many of our children. There is either acceptance and celebration or rejection and depression. So often the kids carry the burden of the lost dreams and hopes of the...
Read MorePlaying the Blame Game
Blaming is such an easy game to play. We all do it and we all learned it early in our lives. “Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?” always ends in “Not me! It was him, her or them.” Right now, the blame game winners are big business and privileged...
Read MoreDon't Bring It to Work
So exciting! A lifetime of research, tenacity, and dreams is now bound in a blue and gold volume called, “Don’t Bring It to Work: Breaking the Family Patterns that Limit Success.” While it took me less than three months to deliver the book, it was more than a thirty year pregnancy....
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