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4 Ways To Reduce Workplace Negativity By Increasing Consistency

Tanveer Naseer

The brain craves certainty, and when you feel uncertain, the almond shaped structure in the brain called the amygdala releases chemicals into the blood stream that you experience as fear, anxiety and doubt. 4 Keys To Successfully Resolving Conflicts in the Workplace Are You Fitting Employee Personality Into Your Leadership Puzzle?

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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. Better leadership is emerging as the defining quality that governs the ability to attain positive outcomes and get the best performance possible out of teams.

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Why Being Certain Means Being Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Our physiology is geared to move us quickly to eliminate the uncomfortable tension of not knowing — the mild stress response our bodies trigger when we perceive that we have lost control because we don't understand. Certainty is the feeling of confidence we have when we've figured things out. We are not hardwired to suspend judgment.

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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. This propelled her into a re-accelerated career phase.

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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. Leadership commitment and support. A company like Dow Chemical is a success story in this way. Administering health risk assessments only. So what does?

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Crisis Management Failures in Japan's Reactors and the BP Spill

Harvard Business Review

It is of even greater importance if a major act of terrorism involving nuclear, chemical, biological or cyber weapons occurs, either in private sector facilities or public spaces that impact private employers. But, the Gulf spill was a national issue, which required governmental direction, responsibility and accountability. Heineman, Jr.,