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Rise of Lonely American Employees Undermines Productivity

Michael Lee Stallard

Others may pursue illegitimate thrills to feel alive again and in doing so develop addictions to pornography, sexual encounters with prostitutes and one night stands, or taking excessive business risks. This may include experiencing feelings of emptiness, boredom and depression. It may lead some to engage in substance abuse to numb the pain.

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Work-From-Home Burnout and Zoom Fatigue is a Lot More Complex Than You Think

Lead Change Blog

Combining my expertise in emotional and social intelligence with research on the specific problems of working from home during COVID, I’ve untangled these two concepts into a series of factors: Deprivation of our basic human need for meaning and purpose. Deprivation of our basic human need for connection. Conclusion.

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Innovate Forward

Leading Blog

Technology is the raw material that 21st-century innovators need to build new business capabilities, to develop exciting new products and services, and to create workarounds for the physical distancing measures we will likely endure for the foreseeable future. What new products and services will you create with it?

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Developing Connections When People are Geographically Remote

Michael Lee Stallard

At the heart of building community is developing a bond of connection among the members of a group. They stop fully communicating and, as a result, decision-makers don’t get the information they need to make optimal decisions. Connection is grounded in human needs. The need for recognition is in our DNA.

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To Cope with Labor Shortage, Raise Emotional Compensation

Michael Lee Stallard

Over the nearly 20 years that my colleagues and I have been studying and helping leaders, we’ve learned that boosting emotional compensation is based on meeting seven universal human needs to thrive at work: respect, recognition, belonging, autonomy, personal growth, meaning, and progress. Photo by Leon on Unsplash.

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Overriding Our Instincts in Order to Become Caring Leaders

Leading Blog

The human brain is a miracle of survival and, from a psychological and evolutionary perspective, this makes sense. We have a human need for steadiness and predictability. Recipes are, by definition, detailed processes that allow us to get to a final product — and voila, mission accomplished. We like consistency.

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Study Suggests Global North Still Appropriates Wealth From South

The Horizons Tracker

“In other words, all this productive capacity could be used to meet local human needs, but instead it goes to serve capital accumulation in the North,” the authors explain. Indeed, it is usually the poorer countries that are developing the richer ones rather than the other way around.