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Hack Your Brain To Become A Better Leader

Steve Farber

Physical activity frees the brain from stress because it creates favorable chemical reactions and because it restores a sense of power and control to the mind. But the result is that you are “empowering people to be adults,” as Schmachtenberger put it, and training other leaders on your team. Move, move, move.

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Communication Tips: Connecting With Reserved, Task-Oriented People.

The Recovering Engineer

Listen thoroughly to their concerns and objections — they want you to take the time to understand all of the thoughts and concerns they have so that they can be sure you have completely and accurately thought through your position. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S.

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Snow Drifts, Driving Lessons, and Conflict Resolution

The Recovering Engineer

An exciting experience I must say, and probably the object of another post on a different day.) There are many times when we encounter other people who are under stress, tired, hungry, or frustrated. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S.

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What to Do When Work Stress (Literally) Makes You Sick

Harvard Business Review

Her doctors had trouble pinpointing the source of her stroke — after all, the vast majority occur in those over 65 — but they all offered their best guess: stress. In response, they release hormones and chemicals to speed up our heart rate, increase blood pressure and stimulate our muscles. Turning Stress into an Asset.

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Holiday Compliance Policies to Sweeten the Holiday Season

HR Digest

Depending on what you are celebrating at work and how wild your team is about to be with the decorations, holiday safety can promise a stress-free experience instead of spending it putting out small fires and tripping over stray balloons.

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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 constituted to resist concluding.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

They also stressed organizational learning (meaning, capturing the methods of Lean so that other parts of the organizations could adopt them). Chemical company Air Products has adopted nearly every approach for sustaining improvement from all four religions.