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Mindfulness and Focusing on What Matters

Lead Change Blog

You’ll let go of stress. I’m under no illusion: with leadership comes stress. It’s part and parcel of the job, and something you’ll simply have to accept when you follow this particular career path. A leader who can listen properly will go very far indeed. Wrapping up. I’m a big fan of mindfulness.

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8 Tips for Organizing Your Busy Office

Strategy Driven

Check out these fun and functional office organization ideas that will keep everything in its place and stress levels low. Clip cables and wires together and out of the way with crocodile clips and use a long line of parcel string fixed to the wall to clip papers onto and keep desk space clear. Organized storage. Have a spring clean.

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Unlocking the Mystery Of Successfully Managing Organizational Change

Strategy Driven

A few years ago when shipping giant United Parcel Service (UPS) adopted the clever marketing slogan “Moving At The Speed Of Business,” it resonated well with the public because keeping up with the pace of change can be incredibly tough. So how do you manage change at the fundamental organizational level?

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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

One of the concepts we discussed at Purdue was the fact that when stress hits the hot button we all tend to revert to patterns learned in our original organization, the family. The issue, as you point out, is that women revert to damaging stereotypes under stress than men are not as prone to. But is there a video?

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How to Coach, According to 5 Great Sports Coaches

Harvard Business Review

In a competition I had to take away the stress, the paralyzing thoughts. ” In 2000, Bill Parcells , a football (American football, this time) coach famous for turning around underperforming teams, wrote about his approach, which is slightly blunter than Ferguson’s. She was like a racehorse waiting to run.

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Mindfulness Can Improve Strategy, Too

Harvard Business Review

On a personal level, leaders are taking note of empirical research documenting meditation’s potential for reducing stress, lowering blood pressure, and improving emotional regulation. Visualize positive outcomes : As Daniel Goleman argues , positivity is part and parcel of focused attention. House of Representatives.

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How Women at the Top Can Renew Their Mental Energy

Harvard Business Review

Risk-taking is part and parcel of corporate careers, and few people, men or women, enter the top ranks of the organization without having made a bold gamble or two along the way. There is something about such “offstage” periods that promotes opening up and sets the stage for creating stronger bonds.

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