Each of us at least once had a lot of tasks and too little time to do them all. Choosing what is really important is not as easy as it may seem. Morning clarity The main thing to remember: if everything is a priority, it means that priority is nothing. Repeat this phrase before your day starts. Such a mantra will allow breaking through the many-voiced informational “noise” to what is really...

How are emotions, thoughts, and actions connected in the nervous system? When a reaction to a negative event engulfs us, it’s blinding. At this moment, we concentrate mainly on the source of pain. We cannot process information, think creatively and make the right decisions. Disappointment, anger and stress disconnect our part that is responsible for understanding and motivation. Intense negative...

What is leadership? For some, it means creating a company that will change the world. Others identify it with the ability to make decisions in a large company that needs to adapt to change. Whatever your ambitious plans are, the key to success is not only skills, but also a way of thinking. Ahead of all To be a leader, you need to learn how to filter and analyze facts, feedback and even fears...

Some of us experience emotions of a special depth, have increased empathy and feel existential anxiety. These are the qualities of hypersensitive people. These features cannot but affect life and work productivity. It can be difficult for an emotionally sensitive person to find a middle ground. If your “natural need” for tasks and stimulation deviates from the norm, others will surprise and even...

People spend increasingly more time and energy at work. Frequent stresses, competition, toxic colleagues (and so on and so forth) exhaust us. Awareness can help deal with this. Here are 4 cases when you should call it to the rescue. When you get a rebuke If you know that the upcoming meeting with the leader does not bode well, be mentally prepared. When you meet the boss face to face and...

When publishing its Outrageous Predictions, Saxo Bank emphasizes that this paper is not an official bank forecast for investors and other market participants. However, the bank does not exclude that “many investors may be mistaken in evaluating probability of occurrence of the above-mentioned events as negligible.” Saxo Bank does not exclude that the ECB could make a sharp turn and abandon the...

We all have faced many crises in life. Sometimes a personal turning point or problems in business cause unbearable pain. You may feel overwhelmed, confused and depressed and not know what to do. According to John Chambers, CEO of Cisco, the largest corporation in the world, successful leaders are more a product of fails and victories than of victory. How to behave in a crisis? Keep calm One...

We organize meetings to solve problems, generate ideas, and monitor the progress of the project. But often we get the opposite effect: lost time (and sometimes money), fatigue, uncertainty. So, how to conduct work meetings anyway? Do you really need a meeting? The first argument is not in favor of meetings: egoists love them. There is an audience that is going to listen. There, you can rise...

Psychologist Frederick Herzberg, one of the pioneers in the field of human resources management and management theory, is known for his idea of expanding professional responsibilities, as well as for his proposed two-factor motivation theory. He and his colleagues tried to find out what people like about their work and what they don't. The authors concluded that in order to understand employees'...