A business leader who exemplified good work would be somebody who understood himself or herself, understood the corporation or company that they were in very well, knew something about their history,...
A child's readiness for school depends on the most basic of all knowledge, how to learn. The report lists the seven key ingredients of this crucial capacity—all related to emotional intelligence:6 1....
A mais antiga raiz de nossa vida emocional está no sentido do olfato, ou, mais precisamente, no lobo olfativo, células que absorvem e analisam o cheiro.
A reader’s mind typically wanders anywhere from 20 to 40 percent of the time while perusing a text.
A series of studies by Marian Radke-Yarrow and Carolyn Zahn-Waxler at the National Institute of Mental Health showed that a large part of this difference in empathic concern had to do with how parents...
A wealth of information means a poverty of attention.
All emotions are, in essence, impulses to act, the instant plans for handling life that evolution has instilled in us. The very root of the word emotion is motere, the Latin verb to move, plus the pre...
An artful critique focuses on what a person has done and can do rather than reading a mark of character into a job poorly done. As Larson observes, A character attack—calling someone stupid or incompe...
An epidemic exemplifies system dynamics. The more you can think systemically, the more you can follow the path of coins, art, religion, or disease. Understanding how coins travel along trade routes pa...
And if there are any two moral stances that our times call for, they are precisely these, self-restraint and compassion.
And one of the paradoxes is that leaders, the higher they go, the less vertical feedback they get on how they’re actually doing, because people are afraid to tell them. So leaders can go off in a dire...
Authoritative leaders mobilize people toward a vision. Affiliative leaders create emotional bonds and harmony. Democratic leaders build consensus through participation. Pacesetting leaders expect exce...
Benjamin Franklin put it well: Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one. There
Cada vez es mayor la evidencia de que los pacientes deprimidos que se hallan aquejados de una enfermedad grave también deberían recibir tratamiento para su depresión.
Character, writes Amitai Etzioni, the George Washington University social theorist, is the psychological muscle that moral conduct requires.14
Choices made in keeping with this inner rudder, on the other hand, are energizing. They not only feel right but maximize the attention and energy available for pursuing them.
Cuando, después de recuperarse, mi amigo fue a la universidad local, descubrió una vocación que movilizó su talento creativo, la dirección cinematográfica. Siguiendo esa llamada, se matriculó en una e...
Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.
El liderazgo gira en torno a la necesidad de captar y dirigir eficazmente la atención colectiva.
El liderazgo no es sinónimo de dominación, sino el arte de convencer a la gente de que colabore para alcanzar un objetivo común.
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