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Learn How to Manage Stress

Coaching Tip

Eighty-five percent of employees report they are losing sleep due to work-related stress , according to a survey by global talent mobility consulting firm Lee Hecht Harrison. Stress affects us both physically and psychologically. We live in stressful times. So much of what stresses us is beyond our control.

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Jon Acuff Resignation from Dave Ramsey Team Raises Questions

Modern Servant Leader

The actions by Ramsey’s organization and the lack of transparency from either man raise questions in the Christian business, personal finance and leadership communities. Dave has very kindly stressed to me his desire to make that happen as fast as possible.” Friday, September 20, 2013 at 2:27 PM.

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Effective Handling of Employee Personal Problems is Critical to Maintaining Workforce Efficiency

Strategy Driven

Employers must be concerned about the stress levels of their work force as it can have a damaging impact on employee productivity. These can include tardiness, absenteeism , emotional outbursts, or outward stress and anxiety among many others. Now she writes about business and finance and finds her work-life balance far more enjoyable.

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Six Paradoxes Women Leaders Face in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. What this means for 2013 is that women have a huge opportunity to convert their connections into career advancement. That sounds like progress. The Start Up Paradox.

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Some Companies Are Banning Email and Getting More Done

Harvard Business Review

He’s a middle-aged former minister of finance for France and a former professor at Harvard Business School. percent in 2013, earnings per share rose by more than 50 percent, and administrative costs declined from 13 percent to 10 percent. They even measured the participants’ heart rates (as a proxy for stress levels).

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Employee benefits for Caregivers in workplaces

HR Digest

The responsibility can range from just shopping for essentials to arranging doctor’s appointments, providing transportation, taking care of finances and medicines or even a full-fledged role of assisting in their daily tasks. There are very few people who have at some point in their lives not taken up a caregiver’s role. In the U.S.

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The Cure for Self-Inflicted Complexity

Harvard Business Review

Inter-domain complexity challenges us whenever a hospital patient has co-morbidities (heart and liver problems for example), or a business problem spans marketing and finance, or a political problem bridges foreign relations and domestic economics. Among them will be a common sense that complexity is dropping, not rising.