Wednesday, December 18, 2019

How to Cultivate Gratitude, Compassion, and Pride on Your Team

How to Cultivate Gratitude, Compassion, and Pride on Your Team: Grit is not enough.

30 Funny Jokes To Text Your Partner To Make Them LOL

30 Funny Jokes To Text Your Partner To Make Them LOL: Am I the only one who thinks the best part of Popsicles is the Popsicle stick joke? There's nothing I love more than a joke so bad it's funny, and I think everyone could use a bit more cheesiness in their life. If you're tired of texting your…

The Role of Private Equity in Driving Up Health Care Prices

The Role of Private Equity in Driving Up Health Care Prices: It prioritizes short-term profits over patients’ health.

Why Likable Leaders Seem More Effective

Why Likable Leaders Seem More Effective: Whatever your style, it’s a big factor in how you’re rated.

Helping Your Team Feel the Purpose in Their Work

Helping Your Team Feel the Purpose in Their Work: Show people how their work impacts others.

Don’t Believe in God? Lie to Your Children - WSJ

Don’t Believe in God? Lie to Your Children - WSJ: The alternative is to tell them they’re simply going to die and turn to dust.

What Meditation Can Do for Your Leadership

What Meditation Can Do for Your Leadership: Your ego could be clouding your thinking and getting in the way of your relationships.

Why “Move Fast and Break Things” Doesn’t Work Anymore

Why “Move Fast and Break Things” Doesn’t Work Anymore: Three shifts that will change how businesses compete, collaborate, and create products.

Getting to the Bottom of Destructive Behaviors

Getting to the Bottom of Destructive Behaviors: You have to understand your story before you can rewrite it.

How to Break Up with Your Bad Habits

How to Break Up with Your Bad Habits: For good.

by Judson Brewer partner with Reboot

Sunday, December 1, 2019

The Top 3 Tools Business Coaches Give CEOs

The Top 3 Tools Business Coaches Give CEOs: Many of us will know where we excel, however, when the classic interview question comes up, “What are your weaknesses,” few of us are quick to honestly answer; and some of us don’t even know the answer.

How to be happier without really trying: 4 odd secrets from research

How to be happier without really trying: 4 odd secrets from research: Your Inner Critic is fueled by a lack of compassion for yourself. If we can forgive ourselves, that voice diminishes. We lack self-compassion.

Do You Give Employees a Reason to Feel Proud of What They Do?

Do You Give Employees a Reason to Feel Proud of What They Do?: There’s a connection between pride and performance.

Monday, November 25, 2019

The Best Bosses Are Humble Bosses - WSJ

The Best Bosses Are Humble Bosses - WSJ: Organizations are making a push to hire and promote workers who lead effectively but don’t seek the spotlight.

Monday, November 4, 2019

When It’s OK to Trust Your Gut on a Big Decision

When It’s OK to Trust Your Gut on a Big Decision: I found that the role of gut feel is often to inspire a leader to make a call, particularly when the decision is risky. In the face of information overload, mounting risks and uncertainty, and intense pressures to make the right decisions, there is often debilitating evidence that delays our decision making. We put the choice off, rather than deciding. Trusting your gut allows leaders the freedom to move forward.

Thursday, October 17, 2019

Friday, October 11, 2019

Five things to remember when you're dealing with work anxiety

Five things to remember when you're dealing with work anxiety: Dealing with an anxiety disorder in the workplace can be very challenging. Here are five ways to soothe your mind, written by a very anxious writer.

How a CEO’s Personality Affects Their Company’s Stock Price

How a CEO’s Personality Affects Their Company’s Stock Price: Firms of more conscientious CEOs tended to have lower levels of stock volatility, but were able to generate higher stock returns at increasing levels of risk. In contrast, firms of more neurotic and extroverted CEOs tended to experience higher levels of stock volatility, but were less able to translate this high risk into higher shareholder returns. In fact, for the firms of highly extroverted CEOs, there was a negative relationship between stock risk and shareholder returns.

Thursday, October 10, 2019

How to be the best you can be (20 quick tips for mastery in life)

How to be the best you can be (20 quick tips for mastery in life): Want to know how to be the best version of yourself, master skills, and just plain win at life? Here's 20 lessons I've learned in my journey to success.

Friday, September 20, 2019

The Unlikely Bond Between Japanese Fighter Pilot Nobuo Fujita And Brookings, Oregon . Arts & Life | OPB

The Unlikely Bond Between Japanese Fighter Pilot Nobuo Fujita And Brookings, Oregon . Arts & Life | OPB: In 1962 the junior chamber of commerce in Brookings invited a Japanese fighter pilot to be an honored guest in the town's Azalea Festival. The pilot had tried to destroy the town 20 years earlier.

Monday, September 16, 2019

The 6 Horizons of Focus

The 6 Horizons of Focus: Managing the flow of work can be approached from many altitudes. We have roughly categorized “work” into six levels, or horizons of focus.

The 6 Horizons of Focus

The 6 Horizons of Focus: Managing the flow of work can be approached from many altitudes. We have roughly categorized “work” into six levels, or horizons of focus.

Thursday, August 1, 2019

Are You Eating Too Healthy to Be Healthy? | Adventist World

Are You Eating Too Healthy to Be Healthy? | Adventist World: Understanding orthorexia: when trying to be too healthy can become harmful.

Company Profile: It's a Family Tradition at Koelsch - - Seniors Housing Business

Company Profile: It's a Family Tradition at Koelsch - - Seniors Housing Business: Koelsch Communities leverages 60-year history in seniors housing to master development, memory care. By Jeff Shaw For Aaron Koelsch, his involvement in seniors housing started early. His parents bought a nursing home in 1958 and raised the entire family — including…

Wednesday, July 10, 2019

How smart people handle difficult people in the office

How smart people handle difficult people in the office: To deal with difficult people effectively, you need an approach that enables you, across the board, to control what you can and eliminate what you can’t.

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

10 Ways to Stay Mentally Strong When Your World Is Falling Apart | Inc.com

10 Ways to Stay Mentally Strong When Your World Is Falling Apart | Inc.com: Whether you're facing a medical emergency or a financial crisis, these strategies will help you stay strong when your world is falling apart.

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

10 Ways to Stay Mentally Strong When Your World Is Falling Apart | Inc.com

10 Ways to Stay Mentally Strong When Your World Is Falling Apart | Inc.com: Whether you're facing a medical emergency or a financial crisis, these strategies will help you stay strong when your world is falling apart.

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Amtrak Plan to Expand Ridership Could Sidetrack Storied Trains - WSJ

Amtrak Plan to Expand Ridership Could Sidetrack Storied Trains - WSJ: Amtrak is preparing an overhaul of its railroad network aimed at boosting passenger service in the South and West—but at the expense of long-haul routes beloved by train buffs and their allies in Congress.

Friday, February 15, 2019

Zimbabwe's Richest Man Strive Masiyiwa Establishes $100 Million Fund To Support Rural Entrepreneurs

Zimbabwe's Richest Man Strive Masiyiwa Establishes $100 Million Fund To Support Rural Entrepreneurs: Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa and his wife Tsitsi Masiyiwa have pledged the sum of $100 million to establish a fund to invest in rural entrepreneurs in his home country.

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

How the World Works - The Atlantic

How the World Works - The Atlantic: Americans persist in thinking that Adam Smith's rules for free trade are the only legitimate ones. But today's fastest-growing economies are using a very different set of rules. Once, we knew them—knew them so well that we played by them, and won. Now we seem to have forgotten

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Zimbabwe's Monetary Death Spiral

Zimbabwe's Monetary Death Spiral: President Mnangagwa’s pledge that Zimbabwe is “open for business” rings hollow. With a recent surge to an annual inflation rate of 236%, protests have sparked. As long as Zimbabwe continues to produce its own money, namely bond notes and RTGSs, it will continue to be held in a monetary death grip.