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LeadershipNow 140: September 2017 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from September 2017 that you might have missed: How Exceptional People Developers Beat Bad Systems by @Julie_WG. Does Mindful Acceptance Reduce Stress, Increase Happiness? Is it Time to Innovate? The One Skill That Will Cure All Your Communication Problems via @soul2work. by @DougConant.

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Leaders, Want To Master Innovation? Then Get Funny!

Tanveer Naseer

So to get the most out of innovation processes such as design thinking, truly creative leaders also need to master the social dynamics of… [wait for the punchline}…humor! We have witnessed that skilled leaders, those we call “Stand-Up Strategists”, understand the utility of humor to boost innovation.

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Office Productivity Falls In The Afternoon

The Horizons Tracker

A study conducted at the Texas A&M School of Public Health utilized an innovative data collection approach to examine the productivity patterns of office workers. The research focused on 789 in-office employees at a prominent energy company in Texas and spanned a two-year period from January 1, 2017, to December 31, 2018.

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Strategies To Get People Back Into Work Can Backfire

The Horizons Tracker

In a significant experiment conducted by the UWV from 2015 to 2017, around 130,000 individuals receiving unemployment benefits for at least six months had additional meetings with their client manager to discuss their job search strategy. “And less stress in turn is more likely to result in a more successful job search.”

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Recessions Linked With Declines In Male Mental Health

The Horizons Tracker

They studied global events from 1990 to 2017, like the big 2008 financial crisis, the Greek debt crisis in 2007, and others in Asia and Europe. Some also looked at how it affected feelings of sadness and worry, and a few checked out other things like stress, happiness, and how well people slept.

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How to Create a Stress-Free Work Environment

Strategy Driven

Being stressed at work can come with many disadvantages, but some of the main ones include lack of productivity, constant pressure between employees, lack of professional growth and development, long and inflexible work hours, job insecurity and many more. Is stress generated because the office is too cluttered?

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Play With The Big Boys & Girls.

Rich Gee Group

I thought I would do a “Rich’s Favorite Things Early 2017” post and let you know what resources I use to stay at the top of my game. It’s about innovators, entrepreneurs, and idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built. So here goes.