Leading Blog

JANUARY 28, 2011

Earl Miller, a neuroscientist at MIT says, “ Success has a much greater influence on the brain than failure.” Ned Hallowell comments in Shine : While of course mistakes need to be acknowledged and, one hopes, learned from, it may be more likely, from a purely neurological point of view, that a person will learn more from a success than a failure.” Hallowell points out that acknowledgment or recognition serves two important functions.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 25, 2011

In The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving , corporate strategist and author Hank Moore shares some of the lessons he has learned over the years. Here are five: You cannot go through life as a carbon copy of someone else. You must establish your own identity, which is a long, exacting process. As you establish a unique identity, others will criticize.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2011

Psychiatrist Edward Hallowell says that to bring out the best in people you have to focus on the interaction between what is within a person and what lies outside. Properly aligned, you can achieve peak performance. By peak performance he means “consistent excellence with improvement over time at a specific task or set of tasks.” “While no one has ever achieved the goal of ‘being all they can be,’” he says “everyone has it in them to deliver peak performance defined in that way.

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