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Workplace Depression: This is How to Tell Your Employees Are Depressed

Strategy Driven

Fatigue and decreased energy. Overwhelming redundancy in workplace operations may not be stimulating enough for some employees. Stress builds up over time when expectations aren’t being met or not even being set. Decreased appetite. Loss of interest in once exciting things. Difficulty concentrating. Anxious tendencies.

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Diagnosis Cancer - The Opportunity to Reinvent Life and Work

Management Craft

I regret that the timing of this diagnosis and operation is bad for several of my clients. In particular, he told me not to go overseas too soon after the operation in case of any complications. I have no idea how I will feel after the surgery and whether I will be on any mind/energy altering medication.

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Solving the Twin Crises of Energy and Water Scarcity

Harvard Business Review

Few people realize the important role water plays in our daily energy use, or the energy required to heat, treat, and supply water. Meanwhile, the electricity used for water treatment can be as much as one-third of a city’s energy bill. Most companies’ value chains are heavily dependent on water and energy resources.

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Stress Can Be a Good Thing If You Know How to Use It

Harvard Business Review

With all the media and medical attention on stress and its negative health impacts, it is easy to reach the conclusion that stress is irredeemably bad—something to be avoided as much as possible. We are willing to bet that those times invariably involved some stress or struggle. Stress has many wonderful attributes.

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What Neuroscience Reveals About Creating Better Leaders In Today’s Organizations

Tanveer Naseer

The results of these studies, captured from subjects operating under real or near-real conditions, has put the nature vs nurture debate on leadership to rest. This suggests that endocrinal functions that regulate the autonomic central system are actually regulated by the conscious control of stress levels.

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How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works

Harvard Business Review

Health assessments typically involve asking employees questions about modifiable risks, such as smoking behavior, physical inactivity, poor diet, and high stress levels. A company like Dow Chemical is a success story in this way. Administering health risk assessments only. This, of course, takes time and support.