by HappyQuotient | Sep 17, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
I’m of a certain age when things seem to disappear a lot. Keys, glasses, my cell phone, a favorite sweater. I put them down somewhere, and, hours later, I can’t remember where that somewhere is. My memory—in particular, my short-term or “working” memory—is not at its...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 16, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Sep 15, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Sep 14, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Sep 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
SCOTT WEBB/Unsplash Everyone knows leaders should delegate to ensure that they are working on the right projects and deliverables. But if you find yourself frequently miscommunicating with your team on deliverables, hearing about issues at the last minute, and...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Maskot/Getty Images Career or child care? It’s an unfortunate dilemma faced by every working woman with a baby on the way. Should she take a lengthy maternity leave, knowing that more time at home can improve the well-being of both mother and child? After all,...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Charles McQuillan/Getty Images “I don’t quite know what to do next,” said Simon, a media CEO. Simon had been a chief executive for 15 years, and CFO before he was 30. He had turned around private and public companies, quadrupled profits and...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Peter Dazeley/Getty Images Ever since the forced bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers triggered the financial crisis 10 years ago, regulators, risk managers, and central bankers around the globe have focused on shoring up banks’ ability to withstand...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 14, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
Plenty of exercise. Healthy food. Positive attitude. Plain old good luck. There’s lots of advice out there about how to keep body and brain in optimal shape as the years roll by. But Louis Cozolino, professor of psychology at Pepperdine University, is deeply engaged...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 14, 2018 | HBR
It may not seem possible to be able to write your way to better health. But as a doctor, a public health practitioner, and a poet myself, I know what the scientific data have to say about this: when people write about what’s in their hearts and minds, they feel better...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 14, 2018 | HBR
It may not seem possible to be able to write your way to better health. But as a doctor, a public health practitioner, and a poet myself, I know what the scientific data have to say about this: when people write about what’s in their hearts and minds, they feel better...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 13, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Sep 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Katie Edwards/Getty Images We tend to romanticize leadership. When friends are promoted to managerial positions, we slap them on the back, tell them that they finally made it, and congratulate them for their hard work. Our reactions are understandable. Occupying a...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Jon Feingersh/Getty Images Planning has long been one of the cornerstones of management. Early in the twentieth century Henri Fayol identified the job of managers as to plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control. The capacity and willingness of managers to plan...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Tatsiana Volskaya/Getty Images We all know the old script: join a company, work hard, move up the ladder. But it’s been decades since that was a reliable path, and not just because of layoffs or outsourcing or robots. These days, the culprit preventing many...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Customers’ needs, wants, and preferences are rapidly reshaping business in the digital age. With social and mobile technology always in hand, consumers expect companies to be available online at any time with high-quality customer experiences. These connected...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Patrick George/Getty Images We live in unequal times. The causes and consequences of widening disparities in income and wealth have become a defining debate of our age. Researchers have made major inroads into documenting trends in either income or wealth inequality...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 13, 2018 | HBR
If you asked someone to list some typical regular weekday morning breakfast foods, they’d probably rattle off things like cereal, toast, bagels, muffins, pancakes, waffles, and maybe eggs and bacon. But here’s the deal. Breakfast is how we break our overnight fast,...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Patrick George/Getty Images We live in unequal times. The causes and consequences of widening disparities in income and wealth have become a defining debate of our age. Researchers have made major inroads into documenting trends in either income or wealth inequality...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Alfred Huber /Getty Images Supervisors enjoy all kinds of advantages that come with their positions: they have control over resources, make important decisions, enjoy higher salaries and other valuable perks, and have opportunities to network with power-brokers both...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 13, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
A lawyer in Bermuda became internet-famous for dancing ballet alongside his two-year-old daughter, comforting her stage fright by being there and doing the dance moves right with her. He knew the part because he had practiced ballet with his children before—and said...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 12, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Sep 12, 2018 | HBR
The pursuit for the healthiest diet continues. Just as I was finishing writing this blog post, a new study came out suggesting that both low-carb and high-carb diets may shorten lifespan. In the 1980s and ‘90s, we were following the low-fat trend. These days, the...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 12, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Ilka & Franz/Getty Images Companies achieve remarkable things. They create products for customers, financial returns for investors, and jobs for employees. At the same time, they develop medications that cure deadly diseases, technologies that bring internet...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 12, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
AnthonyRosenberg/Getty Images Love it or hate it, office politics is an inevitable part of organizational life. Many people associate political behavior with backstabbing and manipulation — but there is a constructive side to being politically savvy. Being...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 12, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
cintascotch/Getty Images U.S. companies are expected to spend more than $37 billion dollars on social media promotion annually each year by 2020, representing 24% of the economy’s total digital advertising spend. It’s an astounding number, given that the...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 12, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Jens Magnusson/Getty Images As an executive coach, I speak regularly at corporate leadership development programs. During discussions, participants often confess the real reason they’re in the room, and it’s rarely “to grow and learn.” Time and...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 12, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
Recently, Google announced that its voice-activated program, Google Assistant, will be offering a new feature called “Tell Me Something Good.” Users can now give that command and receive an earful of positive news stories. Google isn’t the only outlet offering an...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 12, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Jens Magnusson/Getty Images As an executive coach, I speak regularly at corporate leadership development programs. During discussions, participants often confess the real reason they’re in the room, and it’s rarely “to grow and learn.” Time and...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 11, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Sep 11, 2018 | HBR
During the first year of life, naps are crucial for babies (who simply cannot stay awake for more than a couple of hours at a time), and crucial for parents and caregivers, who need breaks from the hard work of caring for an infant. But as children become toddlers and...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
FREDERICK FLORIN/Staff/Getty Images Most corporate team building is a waste of time and money. I say this based on my 25+ years of research and practice in the field of team effectiveness. Seventeen of those years were with Mars Inc., a family-owned $35 billion global...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Ming Zeng, the chief strategy officer at Alibaba, talks about how the China-based e-commerce company was able to create the biggest online shopping site in the world. He credits Alibaba’s retail and distribution juggernaut to leveraging automation, algorithms,...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 11, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
In 2016, more than 16 million adults in the United States suffered from at least one major depressive episode—an alarming statistic, to say the least. Depression is also costly to society, affecting our health care system, workplace productivity, and individual and...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Hoxton/Sam Edwards/Getty Images Imagine that a temporary absence from your workplace could lead to 10 years of sustained high performance being forgotten. Imagine that your relationship with senior partners at your firm, with whom you had previously worked closely,...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Stan Tekiela Author/Getty Images Every day we get new reminders of just how tough the war for talent can be. It isn’t enough to attract the greatest employees — you have to retain them. That’s become a bigger challenge with “job...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 10, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Sep 10, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
I didn’t personally know two of them, but I knew her. I remember long locks of black hair cascading down her back as she sat in the front row of my English 9 College Preparatory class. I remember a confident voice convinced of an auspicious future as a K-9 police...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 10, 2018 | HBR
If you delivered a baby early, you may want to pay closer attention to your heart health. A study published in the journal Hypertension shows that a history of preterm birth (defined as a birth before the 37th week of pregnancy) may bring health risks for not only for...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Michael Steffen / EyeEm/Getty Images Since at least the time of Frederick Taylor, the father of “scientific management,” control has been central to corporate organization: Control of costs, of prices, of investment and—not least—of people....
by HappyQuotient | Sep 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Juj Winn/Getty Images Just becoming a leader is enough to exacerbate some people’s unethical tendencies. But power does not corrupt everyone. Our research suggests that key personality characteristics predict unethical leadership behavior. We collected...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Michael SnellE/Getty Images In 1545, Jacopo da Pontormo scored a major commission from Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici to paint the main chapel of Florence’s church of San Lorenzo. A contemporary of masters like Michelangelo, Pontormo was a distinguished but...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Rafael Ben-Ari/Getty Images [T]echnology alone is not enough—it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing. — Steve Jobs Steve Jobs’s vision for Apple was...
by HappyQuotient | Sep 9, 2018 | HBR
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