mindset
What Impossible Thing Will You Do?
On Saturday, May 30th SpaceX and NASA launched astronauts to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral. It was the first time in almost a decade that a manned launch took place on American soil and the first time a commercially owned rocket l…
Feeling Happy (or Sad) Affects Your Productivity
Does happiness make people more productive? Yes, say researchers at the University of Warwick and IZA. In a series of experiments, randomly selected individuals who were made happier exhibited approximately 12% greater productivity, as measured by a st…
Don’t Let “Perfect” Be the Enemy of “Good”
We should all strive to do our best, but if you always aim for perfection, you may blow deadlines, annoy your colleagues, and miss out on opportunities. Instead of never being satisfied with “good enough,” talk to others about their standards. What doe…
Don’t Operate Out Of Fear
Whether it is fear of failure, fear of a virus, or just general fear, the worst thing you can do for your business or yourself is to operate from a place of fear. No one has ever succeeded by giving in to fear. While it can be easy to get caught up in …
How Clean Is Your Bathroom?
The bathroom tends to be one of the most overlooked areas in a business. This also makes it one of the most telling places. Your bathroom tells a lot about how you do business. The bathroom represents the attention to detail. Is it clean? Is it pleasan…
Adapt Your Leadership Style To The Situation
Different work situations call for different leadership styles, and most managers use one of two approaches: dominance or prestige. When you lead through dominance, you influence others by being assertive and leveraging your power and formal authority….
Adapt Your Leadership Style To The Situation
Different work situations call for different leadership styles, and most managers use one of two approaches: dominance or prestige. When you lead through dominance, you influence others by being assertive and leveraging your power and formal authority….
Adapt Your Leadership Style To The Situation
Different work situations call for different leadership styles, and most managers use one of two approaches: dominance or prestige. When you lead through dominance, you influence others by being assertive and leveraging your power and formal authority….
Strategies to Use When You’re Feeling Anxious
It’s normal to experience occasional anxiety — for example, when we’re faced with a high-stakes meeting, a stressed-out boss, or a conflict with a colleague. Feeling anxious can make you more vigilant, engaged, and productive, but it can also exacerbat…
Don’t Brush Off Positive Feedback — Study It
Most of us remember critical feedback. Criticism is jarring and threatening, so it tends to stick in our brains. Most of us dismiss positive feedback, sometimes people think of it as people being nice and sometimes people assume that it’s sarcasm…