Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life By Steven Johnson
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The Eureka Effect: The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking By David Perkins
BOOK: Discover how insights occur, and learn how to stimulate your own "breakthrough thinking."
MIT Sloan Management Review
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MAKE CONSCIOUS CHOICES
by Alexander Caillet
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Practice presence– the #1 quality in all great leaders – to be better able to handle whatever shows up, moment to moment.
Check out how the San Diego Padres are doing. Pay particular attention to the frequency of and recovery from injuries by the pitching staff. That may tell you something about possibilities to improve the functioning of your own organization.
As reported by the Wall Street Journal (March –18-19 2006), San Diego is one of several baseball teams looking at new conditioning programs to help reduce injuries. The Padres have turned to one regimen whose relevance in business is other than it seems. And that is yoga.
Yes, yoga – originally an exotic activity from India (skinny people in turbans performing pretzel contortions), then a fad for health-conscious women, now going mainstream. We know of one senior manager who gave his direct reports gift certificates for private sessions with his yoga teacher instead of the usual Christmas items from Tiffany’s – promising them that yoga would improve their golf game. Others emphasize the stress-reduction possibilities of yoga. Ironically, in fact, that benefit leads to skepticism in business circles; in Europe, for example, our colleagues tell us that businessmen don’t believe people can be productive in the “blissed-out state” that they assume to be yoga’s goal.
But they’re missing the point. Yoga is not about becoming so serene that you don’t care about such mundane matters as earnings and performance goals. Its focus is awareness: what’s going on in your body; where are you strong or weak, tense or loose; how are you feeling; what’s the quality of your thoughts. And, above all, where are you in relation to other people and things – not where were you yesterday, or where might you be tomorrow; but where are you right now.
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FACT VS. OPINION
by Tina Kerkam President, Convergence Group Comments (0)
Do you ever feel overwhelmed with data? The success of our enterprises depend on our ability to discern the difference between fact and opinion. These tips may be helpful.
1. Check the assumptions
2. Check the context
3. Check the author
4. Check your gut
5. Check out the outside
“Your Action Plan: Converting Your Strategy Into Action” By Bill Birnbaum, CMC
When planning, you'll first develop broad strategies. Then you need to support those strategies with specific steps to accomplish each. That's what action planning is all about. Let's look at the process of developing those steps... let's examine what it takes to develop an effective action plan.
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The Winner's Brain: 8 Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Success
BOOK: Ever wonder why some people seem blessed with success? In fact, everyone is capable of winning in life - you just need to develop the right brain for it.
If I'm so Smart, why Can't I Lose Weight?: Tools to Get It Done
BOOK: Since applying the tools I learned in Brooke's program to my everyday life, I have already released 35 pounds of fat from my body...
I Love You, but I'm Not IN Love with You
BOOK: An exciting new guide to put love back in before the relationship fizzles out!
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