By Ute Stephan — 2018
Here are the five key findings that sum up the highs and lows of being an entrepreneur.
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“The one non-negotiable is to create a culture of what we call ‘compassionate directness’, where people are empowered to express concerns, dissatisfactions, good ideas they have—and to do it in a compassionate way,”
It can be tough enough to manage your own stress. But how can you, as a manager, help the members of your team handle their feelings of stress, burnout, or disengagement?
Hyla Cass shares the words of William Walsh, a nutritional medicine expert.
In McLaren’s view, we typically perceive emotions as problems, which we then thoughtlessly express or repress. She advocates a more mindful approach, where we step back and see our emotions as sources of information.
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I don’t know what happened to emotions in this society. They are the least understood, most maligned, and most ridiculously over-analyzed aspects of human life.
We’ll be better prepared for life’s challenges if we cultivate these 12 inner strengths.
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Our world is in the midst of an emotional meltdown. People are restless, volatile, our tempers about to blow. Why is rage so rampant? What is the solution?
I don’t fit in the crowd, so I am not worried about standing out. I don’t look at what others are doing—I focus on what I am doing, and that’s what has lead me to become an industry leader. - Latham Thomas
The effects of stress remain on the fringes of medicine today, despite reams of research as to the toxic effects of chronic stress on the body.
Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist at Stanford, thinks we spend too much time worrying about stress and not enough harnessing it to learn and grow.