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Slow Death by Stress

Tony Mayo

This clever infographic summarizes some of the research on negative health effects of job stress. I do not the job my nephew had in Afghanistan, removing mines and IEDs, but other than combat these jobs seem very stressful. People like my clients, “Senior Corporate Executives,” are the 3rd worst.

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The #1 Leadership Skill for the “Covid19 War” – Inner Peace

Leading Blog

It is an existential crisis — life or death. It generates personal fears, insecurities, and stress, all of which can inhibit high-quality thinking, decision making, and effective collaboration, which is mission-critical in such times. It is a crisis dominated by unknowns and huge downsides.

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3 Things You Need to Control to Succeed as a Leader

Leading Blog

This system guides our daily habits, helps us make snap decisions, and reacts instantly to dangerous life-and-death situations, like saber-toothed tigers, through the freeze, fight, or flight stress response. That produces an unnecessarily stressful everyday life experience that undermines our mental and physical well-being.

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6 Needs to Thrive at Work

Michael Lee Stallard

Or are you struggling, losing interest, or so stressed that you’d just like to walk away? Sickness, death, job loss, divorce, depression, etc. Feeling like we belong is also necessary to cope with stress. If we feel unsupported, left out or lonely, we will be vulnerable in stressful work environments. are part of life.

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Why Relational Connection Is So Important During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Michael Lee Stallard

Collectively, we understand the goodness of “flattening the curve” by each of us doing our part to slow the spread of the virus. This connection deficit may exacerbate the negative effects of stress and diminish physical and emotional resilience that people will need to fight the COVID-19 virus. Loneliness affects our lifespan.

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Protecting Your Employees (and Yourself) from the Stress-Connection Gap

Michael Lee Stallard

The nature of modern work has caused stress to rise to unhealthy levels at a time when people are also struggling with increased isolation. Research from Gallup shows a rising percentage of Americans who feel stress in their day-to-day lives. Nearly 80% of Americans now report being afflicted by stress.

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Despite Our Incredibly Tough Times, Our World’s Still Getting Better and Better

The Practical Leader

This discussed how “headline stress disorder” fuels the pessimism and even despair that make us sick, hurts our mental health, and reduces happiness. With the COVID-19 pandemic and all its fear, death, and destruction, it’s very easy to lose perspective. Global death rate is falling. — spoiler alert; NO.

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