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A World Gone Social

Lead Change Blog

This impacts our brain chemistry and releases cortisol (the fight-or-flight chemical) because we feel threatened, and compromises our ability to think, innovate, and perform well at work. How should we deal with it? Learn more and register here. The post A World Gone Social appeared first on Lead Change.

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Hacking Leadership

Lead Change Blog

This impacts our brain chemistry and releases cortisol (the fight-or-flight chemical) because we feel threatened, and compromises our ability to think, innovate, and perform well at work. If we calm our emotions when we overreact and try to think rationally, we strengthen the mature brain, allowing us to respond wisely and with respect.

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7 Ways to Increase Trust by Creating Stability

Leading Blog

When you feel uncertain, the amygdala, an almond shaped structure in the brain shoots out chemicals through your blood stream that make you experience feelings of fear, doubt and anxiety. Excuses such as “that’s just the way I am,” or “You would feel the same way” indicates a lack of discipline and emotional maturity.

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We Need to Ask How We Can Make Economic Growth More Inclusive

Harvard Business Review

That is, they do for creative problem-solving what catalysts do in chemical processes: they dissolve barriers and accelerate progress down more productive pathways. Take the question that has lately been put on the political table because of the prosperity bind facing so many mature economies.

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In China, Go for Broke or Accept that Less Is More

Harvard Business Review

Some sectors, such as chemicals and construction materials, are already plagued with slow growth rates; others such as consumer goods are reaching maturity so adding offices, salespeople, and distributors may boost sales but not profits. In a dynamic market like China, a review of trends is necessary every one or two years.

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials and biomedical systems. Quite a respectable performance for a company operating in a fairly mature industry. Quite to the contrary. Consider PPG Industries. for the S&P 500 Industrials.

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Uber Needs Our Permission to Grow

Harvard Business Review

DuPont was forced to dissolve its patent-pooling arrangements with foreign chemical firms and disgorge its cross-holdings in GM stock, devastating both its top and bottom lines. And on this issue of management distraction,] and organizational maturity, it is instructive to remember that Uber is impossibly young for all it has achieved.