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Communicating About Change – Connect With Emotions

The Recovering Engineer

Related posts: Decision Making 101 – Check Your Emotions Before You Decide Using the DISC Model: How to Create Stress for Other People Conflict Resolution Tips: Task Oriented People with People Oriented Individuals Why You Might Eventually Do Something You Don’t Want to Do… DISC Model FAQ’s: Is Changing Your Behavior Phoney?

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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. One of the concepts we discussed at Purdue was the fact that when stress hits the hot button we all tend to revert to patterns learned in our original organization, the family.

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I Need Your Help – What Would You Like to Know About the DISC Model?

The Recovering Engineer

A DISC Model Question You Should Ask of Yourself Using the DISC Model: How to Create Stress for Other People DISC Model FAQ’s: Could I Have More Than One DISC Behavior Style? He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. Reply What Do You Think?

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It's About What Matters

Persuasive Powerhouse

What makes time management difficult is that I might have a “to do” list together and a goal for that day, but depending on the needs of our customers I might not even touch that list. Which is another thing that I’m surprised I haven’t lost it yet because going to the gym is a huge stress reliever for me. Jennifer V.

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The Professional: Seven New Rules

Strategy Driven

Fifty years ago, we did not have television news anchors, software engineers, web designers, or cosmetic surgeons. Some of the qualities that impact self-awareness are knowing who I am, where I come from, what my strengths are, how well I handle adversities, how well I seek help, and how well I am able to rein in my emotions under stress.

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Silver Linings for 2012

Harvard Business Review

Certainly, times are terribly stressful, and I don't mean to downplay the reality that too many employees face. They want to chug ahead, like the Little Engine That Could. Consider George, a CEO of a large building-engineering firm in Silicon Valley. If you pay attention to workplace surveys, the news sounds pretty bad.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.