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Can ‘DGD-ing’ be a good thing?
Last week I shared with you how our beliefs and values shape our perceptual filters. I specifically focused on the potential disadvantages of the way we filter (out of absolute necessity) the overwhelming 2 million bits of data our sense receive every second. This can...
Can you ever be objective?
According to numerous leading experts, including Dr C D Broad (Cambridge philosopher), "Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.” The problem with...
The power of 10%
I was reading an article recently that inspired me to write and remind you that small changes can make a BIG difference. A lot of us often feel challenged or overwhelmed by the “big changes” happening in the world around us. This can lead to a variety of “out of...
Absence makes the heart…?
Leading a team of diverse employees with constantly changing needs and limited resources is hard enough. Scatter those employees across different geographic areas, where face-to-face contact is infrequent, priorities are constantly shifting and there is little time to...
Wonder don’t wander
I was recently amazed to find Harvard research showing that a wandering mind has a bigger influence on happiness than any other activity a person happened to be doing. These findings confirm many philosophical and religious traditions that teach about finding...
What is ‘Netiquette’?
Netiquette (a portmanteau of "network etiquette" or "internet etiquette") is a set of social conventions that facilitate interaction over networks, ranging from social media, to emails, to blogs and forums. Like me, you probably rarely get letters any more. Even phone...
Are e-mails damaging your bottom line?
In the age of the dinosaurs (before the internet in the late 1980s), no communication went out without being vetted by a manager. And any manager of distinction had his own secretary. Properly trained secretaries had been trained to write reports, letters and memos...
How well do you write?
Many bright people, perhaps you're one of them, go to great lengths to avoid writing business documents. The threat of facing a blank page or a bare computer screen can be more powerful than the desire to write. Just the thought of getting started can induce writers...
Allow Happiness
Many years of our life can be wasted waiting to finish school, complete our studies, find the 'right' job, meet 'Mr or Mrs Right', get in-shape, have children, afford the perfect home (and the list goes on and on...). We can easily fall into the trap of thinking that...
Creating a happier workplace is simple.
Australian positive psychologist Timothy Sharp – otherwise known as "Dr Happy" – asked 50 people a simple question: "What do you consider to be the top three contributors to happiness at work?" Their answers provide food for thought to managers and employees alike....
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