The benefits of mindfulness are well-known but is mind wandering necessarily a negative?
Mind wandering is often stigmatized. For instance, those with ADHD are often considered to be less productive, as they are more prone to...
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The good life: At work?
Someday we might find gross national happiness as a measure of a country’s success instead of gross domestic product if trends continue....
The paradox of the less powerful
Overtly or not, we negotiate on a daily basis. What we don’t know about our relative position of power can hurt us. Counter to intuition,...
Soft skills: Just as valuable as tech skills, even in Silicon Valley
In the vast majority of schools, the educational system is centered on hard skills in academic areas such as math, leaving many...
How to create a dream team: It's not just about diversity
If only every company could have a flagship product to propel what might otherwise be an ordinary company into one that is capable of...
Innate traits of creativity and how to harness so-called dangerous ones
So you want a creative team. How do you know if you have people with enough creative juice or if you need to hire them? David and Tom...
You can kill or boost creativity at work
Too often, forces acting upon creative, talented people in an organization can have a substantial impact on their output. Innovative...
Don't let a black swan make you a turkey. Or, the danger in focusing on the most profitable cust
So, it turns out there is a risk involved in concentrating efforts on only the most profitable customers. Granted, that sounds highly...
The trap of the rational model
Overwhelmed by the evidence of human emotion as the driving (if subconscious) element in decision-making, we discard the traditional...
Re-thinking the A Player: The B Team (Not what you think it means)
If the key to successful teamwork is emotional intelligence, as Google’s comprehensive research into the subject has concluded, then...
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