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Some Postures May Affect Hormones, According to Harvard Business School Study
Certain postures—like putting your hands behind your head and your feet up on a desk—could make you feel more powerful by affecting your hormones levels, according to a study by Harvard Business School Professor Amy J.C. Cuddy and her two research partners at Columbia...
Why is Emotional Intelligence Important for Business Success
Emotional intelligence is ‘mind over emotions’. A person with emotional intelligence does not react emotionally on autopilot. A typical person acts 40%-60% of the time on auto pilot. A person with emotional intelligence acts on autopilot much...
How to Design Behavior
Until now, the explosion of methods for changing behavior has been a hodgepodge of author-centric noise. Reading all of the books, blogs, and blowhards can leave one confused by their seemingly conflicting advice. Pundits push their methods as cure-alls. For example,...
4 Things You Can Do to Cheer Up, According to Neuroscience
4 Rituals That Will Make You Happier
You get all kinds of happiness advice on the internet from people who don't know what they're talking about. Don't trust them. Actually, don't trust me either. Trust neuroscientists. They study that gray blob in your head all day and have learned a lot about...
21 ways rich people think differently than the average person
Mastering your money has a lot more to do with psychology and mindset than we might think. That's what Napoleon Hill preached in his bestselling 1937 book "Think and Grow Rich," the culmination of his intensive study of more than 500 self-made millionaires....
How To Get Things Done – Part 2
In this article we conclude our “best of” list for high performance and productivity. Combined, this two-part series of articles can be thought of as a blueprint for how high performance people think and work. I’ve always believed and personally experienced that...
How To Get Things Done – Part I
It amazes me how some people just have a knack for getting things done – they have an amazing bias for action. While others are still compiling a pros and cons list, they’ve already finished or are well on their way to finishing the task at hand. A wise man once...
The Truth about Passion and Entrepreneurship
Passion. It’s one of the many hot topics when it comes to entrepreneurship. From Richard Branson to Oprah Winfrey to Steve Jobs – all have repeatedly stressed how important it is to be passionate about what you do in order to succeed. In fact, many motivational and...
Decoding Resistance to Change
Whether the person/s resisting change is you or somebody else. Here's a Harvard Business Review article on how to use the resistance to achieve the change you seek or need.