by HappyQuotient | Oct 4, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
STOCK4B-RF/Getty Images Being a good doctor is a lot like being a good mentor. Just as clinicians have an ethical duty to act in the best interest of their patients, mentors have a similar duty towards their mentees. In our clinical and academic lives (where...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 4, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
CSA Images/Getty Images The key to any successful relationship is effective communication. In the business world, this means trying to understand what consumers and clients are saying, and responding to them in ways that reflect that understanding. For the most part,...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 4, 2018 | HBR
On the surface, your own brain may be your furthest consideration when you are trying to improve your relationships. Yet it is the very place that processes where you perceive, understand, remember, evaluate, desire, and respond to people. The somewhat bizarre fact of...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 4, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Westend61/Getty Images I’ve long been both paranoid and optimistic about the promise and potential of artificial intelligence to disrupt — well, almost everything. Last year, I was struck by how fast machine learning was developing and I was concerned that...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 4, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Mike Stobe/Getty Images It’s a well-known phenomenon: emotions are contagious. If you work with people who are happy and optimistic, you’re more likely to feel the same. The flipside is true, too; if your colleagues are constantly stressed out,...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 4, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
As Christine Blasey Ford testified in the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, women around the country were glued to their televisions and computers. Watching a woman bravely telling her story of sexual assault—something so many of us have...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 3, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Stuart McCall/Getty Images Long before your favorite movie made it to a theater near you, it was presented in a pitch meeting. Hollywood screenwriters typically get three to five minutes to propose an idea, but it takes only around 45 seconds for producers to know if...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 3, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
thenakedsnail/Getty Images Tracking the data on the effectiveness of employee well-being programs can feel like you’re watching a Ping-Pong match. While more than 60% of U.S. businesses offer such programs, research on their effectiveness has been...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 3, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
FotografiaBasica/Getty Images Over the last several years, competing notions of “diversity” have emerged. In many corners, the traditional definition, focused on demographic diversity, has been eclipsed by a new concept centered on experiential or...
