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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. Update them on when you are going to eliminate a product line and what they can expect.

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

Strategy Driven

Once productive employees may suddenly start missing deadlines. It is a general rule of thumb to look for major behavior and productivity shifts. Overwhelming redundancy in workplace operations may not be stimulating enough for some employees. A general lower state of being may seem to plague your employee. Moving Forward.

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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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Solving the Twin Crises of Energy and Water Scarcity

Harvard Business Review

Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries. Investing in a supply-side solution such as seawater desalination can be as much as four times as costly as water reuse or other resource productivity options.

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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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How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works

Harvard Business Review

To tackle these questions, our respective organizations (the Transamerica Center for Health Studies and the Institute for Health and Productivity Studies at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) prepared a report, “ From Evidence to Practice: Workplace Wellness that Works.” This, of course, takes time and support.

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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. A similar set of problems bedevils Japan. Heineman, Jr.,