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The New Wearable That Can Detect Fatigue In Real-Time

The Horizons Tracker

Often these devices will attempt to calculate a level of fatigue based upon our exercise history in a bid to ward off the over-training that can be the bane of amateur and professional athletes alike. Mostly, these fatigue scores are based on assessing changes in the training volume and intensity of users.

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8 Ways To Design a High-Trust Culture

Leading Blog

Paul Zak, the author of The Trust Factor , has shown that “when someone is tangibly trusted by a stranger, the brain synthesizes the signaling chemical oxytocin” and “ the more trust one is shown, the more the brain produces oxytocin.” High levels of stress and testosterone inhibit the release of oxytocin. T RUST BEGETS TRUST.

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Bots Won’t Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They’ll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves

Harvard Business Review

” The more creatively, comprehensively, and innovatively these selves can be digitized, the greater the opportunity to help workers develop and deploy the optimal traits and qualities they desire. “Your heart rate is the highest it’s been this week,” the app might display after a stressful meeting.

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The Eight Archetypes of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

I was once asked to facilitate in a group coaching intervention for the leadership team at the subsidiary of a large chemical company. A great amount of money had been spent on consultants and on training a workforce that had no clearer idea at the end of 12 months what they were doing or why. These people are focused on the new.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

They trained experts in improvement projects (" Black Belts ") who then drove initiatives that achieved large financial results. They also stressed organizational learning (meaning, capturing the methods of Lean so that other parts of the organizations could adopt them). Brad Power is a consultant and researcher in process innovation.

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What Work Looks Like for Women in Their 50s

Harvard Business Review

A few years later, she joined a start-up called BioAmber, producing chemical intermediates using sugars instead of fossil fuels. This was followed by an eight-year “plateau” in her thirties, running training for the French operation, when she had her three children. New mental skills emerge.

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