1 Minute Stress Management
Feeling stressed? Stop what you are doing and stop thinking negative thoughts – or rather replace them with positive ones . Your brain will focus on what you tell it so it can’t not see that purple...
View ArticleSo many “friends” yet still lonely?
Many people are re-examining their relationship with the social networking site Facebook – the site that keeps on sharing. Or over-sharing according to Time Magazine this month (“Facebook – friends...
View ArticleHave you got charisma?
Charisma literally means Christ-like, and although difficult to define there are some key factors to consider if you want to develop or increase it. Having self confidence is one of them. If you are...
View ArticleThe Four Agreements – shamanic emotional intelligence?
Looking through my library of books on personal and organisational development I came across my copy of The 4 agreements: Practical guide to Personal Freedom (Toltec wisdom), and remembered when I...
View ArticleEmpathy helped humanity rise to the top
It may not be about selfish genes and economic man after all. According to primatology professor Frans de Waal, the success of Homo sapiens is due primarily to our capacity for empathy and our urge to...
View ArticleMake better use of your brain
High achievement has little to do with your IQ but to a partnership between your brain and behaviour. So say Drs Brown and Fenske, regular contributors to the Harvard Business Review, in their book...
View ArticleEmotionally Intelligent Leadership
I first posted this in 2010 after coming across a great article on Emotional Intelligence by Dan Bobinski in Management Issues. He maintained that 2/3 of the difference between average and top...
View ArticleResilient Leadership
Over the years there have been many approaches to leadership with trait theories, style theories, functional models, situational/contingency models, transactional/transformational theories, ideas about...
View ArticleEmpathy deficit
Rihanna’s latest explicit, and some would say exploitative, music video has quite rightly caused some controversy. The song title, if you can call a repetitive one-liner a song, “Bitch better have my...
View ArticleIf you want to be happier – ditch Facebook!
ulearn2bu Research from The Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen in Denmark (one of the happiest countries in the world) has found that giving up your Facebook account boosts happiness and...
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