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Introverts and Extroverts

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Introverts get their energy internally. Extroverts gain energy from being with other people, often the more the merrier. Source: The Wall Street Journal, June 28, 2011. Many people believe that introverts, by definition, are shy and extroverts are outgoing. This is incorrect. There are shy extroverts and outgoing introverts.

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Is Your Unemployed Skill Obsolete?

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Rather than changing your function, consider changing industries, he said — for example, an accountant at a manufacturing company could apply for an accounting job at an energy business. Source: The New York Times, June 19, 2011. Skills acquired in one industry can often be transferred or modified to be useful in another. .

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Trust Busters in Mergers and Acquisitions

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Mergers and acquisitions ("M&As") are on the rise in 2011, and industry analysts now predict more than $3 trillion in global M&A activity for the year. An us-against-them mentality ensues and workers withhold the very talent and energy required for success. . By Dennis and Michelle Reina. Failure to provide information.

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Our Social Brain

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Partly its a question of time and energy. For example, to be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time and emotional energy. A paper published in 2011 found that on Twitter the average number of other people a user regularly interacts with falls between 100 and 200. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.

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Powerless when it comes to crying.

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If the stimulus is great enough, the energy can travel from the emotional area into the frontal motor strip. Sources: The Wall Street Journal, May 4, 2011 and "When Doing It All Won't Do," a self-coaching guide for career women. That's when breathing can devolve into sobbing.

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Retention and Development of Great Talent

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Talented people thrive on that kind of energy. Talented people join and stay in an organization to have an impact – to do work that matters to them and to make a difference. But a badly designed organization keeps them from having an impact or satisfying their values ,” says Ms.

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The Creative Process

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They were wild geysers of creative energy. Sources: "Creation Myth" by Malcolm Gladwell and "Innovative Consumption" by James Surowiecki in The New Yorker, May 16, 2011. Gary Starkweather, and his compatriots at Xerox PARC who invented the Xerox 9700 laser printer, weren't the source of disciplined strategic insights.