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Best Practice: Stories to Encourage Good, Avoid Evil

Michael Lee Stallard

In the workshops we teach, we use stories of great leaders in business, government, the social sector and sports who inspired people to do what’s right. Check out this outstanding TED video of Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo speaking on the topic of how culture encourages or discourages evil.

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Maintaining Physical, Social and Mental Fitness for Peak Performance

Harvard Business Review

According to psychologist Philip Zimbardo and colleagues, social fitness refers to an individual's ability to speak and act on ones values in the face of situational pressure. Zimbardo and colleagues run the Heroic Imagination Project (HIP) and provides additional insights on the topic of building social fitness.