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...