Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 27, 2010

So with each repetition, brain chemicals stimulate your brain cells to grow filaments that reach and connect to each other. When you perform a behavior more than once, your brain naturally tries to make this an automatic pattern. Because if you had to concentrate and try hard to do everything in your life, you wouldnt get anything done.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

And serotonin, that feel-good chemical at the heart of the Prozac revolution, bonds teams together more powerfully than the best-intentioned offsite. But really understanding what makes these chemicals so powerful requires diving deeper into their impact on motivation, learning, and creativity. Let’s take them one at a time.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

We’d have to live without medicinal drugs, challenging sports, sugary foods, and useful tools. A label may read, for example : “WARNING: This product contains a chemical known to the state of California to cause cancer.” But designing an efficient warning system is more complicated than it might appear.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Fantasy Sports Competition. Understanding probabilities, statistics and analytics is increasingly vital to identifying and effectively managing high performing talent. This class requires small teams of students to compete against each other in at least two data-rich team sports. Luck matters but so do the data-driven odds.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. In everything it does, the company pays as much attention to its growth engine — its ability to manage innovation and launch consistently valuable products — as in any particular garment or device it sells. With all this in place, Starbucks can move with assurance to expand.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

Hosts might take visitors to their home for a meal or to a sporting event, conveying valuable information about the local culture and peoples’ personal lives. This also happens during offsites, but during site visits there is more opportunity for one-on-one interaction with colleagues, such as a lunch or a quick coffee.

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Management Craft

MAY 14, 2012

Oh, and John Tesh's sports anthems. But I also like the Fray, Neon Trees, and My Chemical Romance if that helps. I was going to college, was a waitress at a TGI Fridays and then a night audit manager at a hotel. Since I am confessing my dorky music tastes and seriously dating myself, let me say that I am a huge fan of Yanni.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

I'm the CEO of Desso , a European company that makes carpets, carpet tiles and synthetic sports surfaces. Starting in our biggest business — carpet tiles — our managers and staff have gone through the grinding process of identifying every single chemical in our products. I'm also an owner. We did that.

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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

If this chemical process is thrown out of balance, sexuality in the brain can easily fail to develop normally. When the chromosomes instruct the fetus to develop sex organs, the organs then produce female or male hormones. Male hormones turn the initial female brain into a male brain.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Reactions to our political leaders, sports heroes, and other role models crying are mixed. No matter where you stand on the issue of crying, as a manager, if you have not already, you’ll be faced with a crying employee. So what’s a manager to do when faced with a crying employee? the day after he won the election.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2012

Make those office sports leagues mean something. Note: I left out the sense of taste, which could be splendid at Nestle, less so at Dow Chemical.). Create your own office decorations. Make Martha Stewart seethe with envy. Give Subway a rest and have your coworkers cook for your next office party. avoiding lunch with the executives.

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