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The Stresses Of Leadership Shortens Life Expectancy

The Horizons Tracker

New research from BerkeleyHaas is perhaps unlikely to shift the sympathy needle too much, but it does nonetheless highlight the damage the stresses of leadership has on those at the top. The health implications of stress are a very under-studied dimension for many jobs,” the researchers explain.

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Using the DISC Model: How to Create Stress for Other People | Guy.

The Recovering Engineer

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Teamwork: Sharing the Blame! :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Here is what I notice: when stress is high, heads are down and everyone is pointing fingers outward, in the direction of others. When there is less stress there is much more willingness to say “oops, WE made a mistake”. Stress will make us be less accountable, less willing to risk telling the whole truth. Why the difference?

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Burnout Results From Living in Conflict with Values

Michael Lee Stallard

Whatever the case, ignoring the present stressful state is never wise because if affects your mental and physical heath, your relationships and your job performance. 4 Comments so far Casey Ross on August 9th, 2010 Hey Michael! why is everyone smiling?

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4 Ways Positive Thinking Changes You

Joseph Lalonde

You have less stress : Last, but not least, positive thinking changes your stress levels. In 2008, Andrews and Colleagues conducted scientific research that revealed lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol when they had positive thoughts. Your life can be less stressful if you change how you think!

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Leadership & Initiative Overload | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Operating in excess of that threshold will cause increased stress, lack of attention to detail and errant decisioning. Efficiency and productivity are not found working at or even near capacity. Rather entering the productivity zone is found working at about 60% to 70% of capacity.

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The Number One Reason Employees Get Sick.Perceived Unfairness at Work

Great Leadership By Dan

Additionally, interpersonal judgment and social evaluation tends to elicit strong stress reactions with cortisol levels in our system being elevated fifty percent longer when the stressor is interpersonal versus impersonal ((Dickerson, S. Williams, K., Fitness, J. & Newton, N. When hurt will not heal.