Women on Business

AUGUST 10, 2012

The shirts said ‘Greatness has been found’ and sports writers and enthusiasts are lining up to take aim at the perceived lack of humility. As a woman operating in a male dominated industry I have to say ‘Why should they be humble’? Here’s what I have been able to take away from the hoopla. Greatness should be celebrated.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 27, 2010

It’s not worth stressing over if it gets in the way of developing the great relationships you need to get work done well. Striving and resisting causes stress and makes us focus on ourselves instead of others. It relieves stress and allows us to be more open to others. This stuff is just stuff. Stop striving and resisting.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 7, 2010

In the stress of making bottom line goals, you may be missing an opportunity to achieve more than you have. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. The pressure on you to make bottom line goals is even greater than it has ever been.

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Building Personal Strength

JANUARY 9, 2011

My freshman year at West Point was so stressful that over 100 of my classmates dropped out. After graduation came the Army Ranger School, command of an air defense battery on a snowy hill in Germany, and a year of combat operations in Vietnam. As a young man, I had plenty of mental toughness learning opportunities. Coates, Ph.D.,

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 27, 2010

There are plenty of studies showing the health benefits of meditation; how it reduces stress, increases blood flow, slows the heart rate, relieves muscle tension and headaches. The past and the future don’t cause as much stress as they used to. So I’ve been thinking about what I’d write. I am happy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Overtly, most of us say we dislike stress. Stress and I have had a long, complicated relationship. Early in my career, it often felt like my naturally lower-stress, quiet management style was an impediment to advancement. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but you don’t seem like a manager.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 25, 2010

So before the stress of your daily fire drill causes you to get angry with your team; before you cuss at the driver in the Hummer that cut in front of you; before you lash out at your teenager for doing “something stupid” – take a breath. It only adds stress and harm to yourself. It made you want to be around them.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

For most managers (and other leaders) it would require a major paradigm shift in their styles to start sincerely asking these questions of those they’re leading. Sean, yes, this way of thinking is hard, and very different from what most managers are used to. It takes an entirely different mindset to look at the world in this way.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

You have illustrated a situational management tool that is very effective. Dr’s like that one, make visits less stressful on the patient. We seem to be in a continuous state of “change&# whether it’s implementing new systems or convincing management that budget reductions are now a fact of life.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 24, 2010

What makes time management difficult is that I might have a “to do” list together and a goal for that day, but depending on the needs of our customers I might not even touch that list. Which is another thing that I’m surprised I haven’t lost it yet because going to the gym is a huge stress reliever for me. Jennifer V.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

I mean the real, formal, sit down and talk type of meetings that allow the employee, peer, or manager to say whats on their mind. I agree that having these types of meetings helps relieve some stress or at minimum gives you a place to share the burdens/successes you are faced with. To discuss priorities. To give feedback. Great post.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In a hazardous world, managers can learn from the world of scuba diving: train hard, because you’ll never get rid of risk Scroll for more Shortcut to start of content Gareth Lock, founder of The Human Diver. Want to learn more about what diving can teach managers about navigating risk? Additional reporting by David Waller.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

.” We like to call it “strategic stress.” ” The “ Yerkes-Dodson Law ,” which has been used in research that examines the relationship between stress and individual performance, shows that stress increases performance up to a certain point, but not beyond that point.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Frequently, stressed and harried managers look up the organization hierarchy and assume that they'll have greater control of their time when they advance to the C-suite. The same logic applies to preparing to operate as an executive. We know a great deal about the long-term health dangers of prolonged stress.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

He’s the CEO and self-titled “Head Coach ” of Björn Borg, the Swedish sports fashion company named after the tennis star. Last fall, we joined Bunge and his employees for “sports hour,” a mandatory fitness class for all employees every Friday between 11 and noon. Everybody had to do the sports hour.

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Michael Lee Stallard

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Stuck in a state of stress response, we are more likely to feel unwell and to experience anxiety, numbness or depression. Positive relational connection helps us cope with stress. Emotionally, and physically, we feel much better when our bodies operate in an ongoing state of homeostasis. Never worry alone!”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Those solid studies, though, reveal that there are four real benefits from mindfulness: stronger focus, staying calmer under stress, better memory, and good corporate citizenship. If we can calm our amygdala, that allows the prefrontal areas to operate more effectively — and thus to better focus our attention. Stronger focus.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time. It has been our responsibility to lead the consortium of IT partners involved in designing, building, and operating the massive, mission critical IT infrastructure and solutions that support the Games.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Early in your career, the primary measure of your performance is how well you manage yourself. But the higher up you go, the more likely you are to have a job that involves managing others. Ideally, identify something active you’d like to master: take up biking, join a sports league, sign up for baking lessons.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Companies that serve customers who are in a state of stress are especially vulnerable to losing customers’ trust when they perform poorly. Identify and commit to a few crucial “nondelegable” decisions that must be kicked up to a senior manager.

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Tim Milburn

JUNE 27, 2012

NOTE: This is a guest post by Garret Kramer, Author of Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life. These days, it seems that the same common concepts are stressed over and over in order to ensure team success. When people operate from low levels of well-being, they dwell on their differences. Author Bio.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

People were tired and stressed. Some people saw this as a chance to bond with colleagues who were united in their commitment to a common cause — not unlike fans of sports teams who chant, clap, and even do the wave together. We had implemented new software tools. We were about to release a new book.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

How did the stars at that firm manage to shine brightly together, while those at the other merely twinkled on their own? You see it in business, in sports, in creative endeavors from movies to magazines. Resilience: How well a team can hold itself together even under severe internal or external stress and remain effective.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

In the race to get our children into “a good college” we have added absurd amounts of homework, sports, clubs, dance performances and ad infinitum extracurricular activities. And with them, busyness, sleep deprivation and stress. Managing yourself Personal effectiveness Productivity' Schedule a personal quarterly offsite.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 8, 2017

Fortune magazine recently recognized Theo Epstein, President, Baseball Operations for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball and the Cubs organization, as #1 on its world’s greatest leaders list. Last year the Cubs won the World Series and broke the franchise’s 108-year World Series title drought, the longest in professional sports.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We surveyed more than 2,500 managers, from 1,000 companies, including over 100 Fortune 500 companies and 70 organizations ranked at the top of Universum’s “World’s Most Attractive Employers” list (a ranking of company preferences among university students in the top 12 economies).

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 2, 2012

Welcome to today's guest post (and some new ways of thinking about teams) by Garret Kramer , author of Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life. By Garret Kramer These days, it seems that the same common concepts are stressed over and over in order to ensure team success. Do not stress communication.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. Using a sports analogy, the author breaks the work of leaders into three parts: pregame: a matter of character; game day: a matter of competence; and post-game: a matter of consequence.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Crassly put, leaders and managers get knowledge and education while training and skills go to those who do the work. So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. That scares me.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 20, 2010

I often recognize it in the manager who is working 80-hour weeks with no end in sight. He’s harried, stressed, and run down. This helpful but over-burdened manager is sitting in his office. This manager thinks a bit and then tells them what they can do to fix the problem. The manager feels good because they have “helped”.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Oleg is a thought leader, author, business educator and consultant with over 25 years of experience operating businesses and consulting Fortune 500. Leadership assumes certain capacities depending on the size and complexity of the managed organization. This is an excerpt from Leaderology by Dr. Oleg Konovalov.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

Everything operated as its own unit. What President Qubein does isn ’ t just basic MBWA (Management By Wandering Around, as coined by Tom Peters). Students need the support of their parents amidst the stress of separation and the anxiety of new responsibilities. This was part of the problem at the college.

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The Idolbuster

AUGUST 5, 2014

My experience ended up being so overwhelmingly positive, I was immediately hooked on the sport (and yes, I beat him!!). I loved my job so it made the long hours manageable, but it was also stressful. After I won that second triathlon, I sat back and believed that I had what it would take to be great at this sport.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

In a recent Harvard Business Review article we explore how companies require three mutually supportive capabilities to fully exploit data and analytics: an ability to identify and manage multiple sources of data, the capacity to build advanced analytic models, and the critical management muscle to transform the organization.

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