Your Emotions Influence Your Thoughts, and Vice Versa
I recently published a book, Reversing the Senses, based on what I've learned over the years about the importance of right thinking and how we can determine that for ourselves. I have the privilege of...
View ArticleThe Most Important Leadership Skill There Is
There are so many aspects to effectively leading others. Have you ever felt overwhelmed just thinking about where to begin? For instance, we know that we need good business acumen, but we also need to...
View ArticleWant To Advance Your Career? Then Work On Your EQ
In case you don't yet feel it, emotional intelligence--the ability regulate emotions in one's self and identify emotions in others--is a predictor of workplace success, both for employees and managers....
View ArticleAre You Smart? Q&A With Author Harvey Deutschendorf
Entrepreneurs and family business owners are taught to focus their time and attention on business and technical skills to succeed. What's missing are the skills necessary to develop emotional...
View ArticleHow Emotionally Intelligent Are You? Here's How To Tell
What makes some people more successful in work and life than others? IQ and work ethic are important, but they don't tell the whole story. Our emotional intelligence -- the way we manage emotions, both...
View ArticleThe emotional intelligence advantage
Emotional intelligence can definitely be developed but the L&D practices at most organisations are not geared for it. Emotional intelligence is a type of social intelligence that involves the...
View ArticleWhy Emotionally Intelligent People Are More Successful
We've learned that emotional intelligence (EQ) is a crucial skill for both leaders and employees. But several studies point to just how important EQ can be to success, even trumping IQ and experience....
View ArticleThe Quiet Haunting
Moonrise, 1884 Stanislaw Maslowski A little over two years ago, I went to the closet where I kept a hidden stash of pills, carefully packed them among my things into a small weekend suitcase, made...
View ArticleIn the media: Faculty inform the press (College of William and Mary)
(Source: College of William and Mary) In the media: Faculty inform the press by staff | July 22, 2014 William & Mary President Taylor Reveley Reveley wrote a piece for the Huffington Post...
View ArticleAnalytics, not statistics, driving NHL evolution (Philadelphia Flyers)
(Source: Philadelphia Flyers) In the fall of 1917, the Montreal Wanderers and Toronto Arenas played the first NHL game; with the sport in its infancy, forward passes weren't yet legal. Every June,...
View ArticleAnalytics, not statistics, driving NHL evolution (Ottawa Senators)
(Source: Ottawa Senators) In the fall of 1917, the Montreal Wanderers and Toronto Arenas played the first NHL game; with the sport in its infancy, forward passes weren't yet legal. Every June,...
View ArticleTurkey’s Refugee Crisis: The Politics of Permanence (International Crisis Group)
(Source: International Crisis Group) Executive Summary Turkey's response to the influx of Syrians is a source of national pride. The massive numbers pose significant absorptive and financial challenges...
View ArticleHow Two Trailblazing Psychologists Turned the World of Decision Science...
The dozen or so graduate students in Danny Kahneman’s seminar at Hebrew University, in Jerusalem, were all surprised when, in the spring of 1969, Amos Tversky turned up. Danny never had guests: The...
View ArticleIs Amanda Knox a Psychopath? What the Hare Psychopathy Checklist Reveals
In an email to Judge Nencini, Amanda Knox declared, “I am not a psychopath.” But can we believe her? After all, psychopaths are pathological liars and Knox has been caught up in more than a few...
View ArticleNew study claims that religious people are less intelligent than atheists
A new study published March 23, 2016 in the PLOS (Public Library of Science) One, a peer reviewed open access scientific journal, is making the rounds of on-line publications like Sciencedaily.com and...
View Article8 Things You Need to Know Before Buying a New Car
The good news is you’re in the market for a new car. The bad? You don’t even know where to begin. It always pays to comparison shop, and with so many sites dedicated to vehicle reviews, stats on...
View ArticleHow To Escape A Midlife Crisis
Toby Melville/ReutersA man passes a display of model cars at the Ferrari store in central London May 6, 2009. This summer, a friend called in a state of unhappy perplexity. At age 47, after years of...
View ArticleWho won the presidential debate?
(CNN)CNN commentators and guest analysts offer their take on Monday night's presidential candidate debate. The opinions expressed in these commentaries are solely those of the authors. David Gergen:...
View ArticleWhat would you pay to be happy?
The source of our happiness is closer than ever to being located, measured and commodified. Alex Renton meets the ‘psychoeconomists’ and asks, have they created a monster?...
View ArticleWhy it pays to be a jerk
See Also Smile at the customer. Bake cookies for your colleagues. Sing your subordinates’ praises. Share credit. Listen. Empathize. Don’t drive the last dollar out of a deal. Leave the last doughnut...
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