• The Positivity Tipping Point

    Do you know your positivity ratio? That’s the ratio of positive emotions to negative emotions you experience over time. Research shows that people who experience at least three times as many positive emotions as negative emotions are more likely to flourish.

  • The Choice Point: Choosing Our Response to Adverse Situations

    In this video, Sam Latif and I discuss the choice point—how we choose to respond to adversity. Specifically, the benefits and challenges of actively choosing our response in a situation, rather than acting on autopilot.

  • Keeping Stakeholder Relationships On Course, Part 2

    In Part 1 of Keeping Stakeholder Relationship on Course you identified your stakeholders, analyzed their impact and set an influence strategy. Here I will discuss how to implement your influence strategy.

  • On Gifts and Giving

    According to Wharton Professor Adam Grant, givers often finish first. Grant’s research shows how givers—people who do more for others than they expect in return—rise in organizations.

  • Mental Simulations and Other Ways to Make Better Decisions

    Do you follow a formalized process or framework for making decisions? Probably not. Although many of us are familiar with the decision-making process of understanding the problem, identifying and evaluating alternatives, then choosing the alternative with the highest rating, we usually don't go through all these steps. Instead, we use heuristics, rely on past results, or follow other people's actions.

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  • Put Your Signature Strengths To Work

    What are you exceptionally good at? What do you love doing so much that you lose track of time when doing it? Chances are, your answers to these questions reveal what psychologists call your “signature strengths.” Learning how to use your signature strengths at work can mean the difference between success and failure—between flourishing and burnout.

  • The (Ugly) Truth about Feedback

    Why are we allergic to feedback? Because we often perceive feedback as (well-intentioned) criticism, which triggers the same kind of response in the brain as physical pain.

  • What it Takes to Follow-Through

    Both talent and effort are necessary for achievement. Talented people often fail for lack of stamina. While talent depends on intelligence (the smarter you are, the faster you learn), effort is directly related to self-control or "grit," according to Psychologist Angela Duckworth.

  • Give Your Self-Control a Boost

    Self-control—the ability to delay gratification, concentrate on a task, resist a temptation, or control emotions—is key to success at work and in life. The good news is that we can improve our willpower.

  • Strengthen Your Willpower

    Willpower. Who wouldn’t like to have more of it? We need willpower when we concentrate on a task, solve a problem or resist a temptation. Read on for tips on how to build your willpower.

  • The Importance of First Line Leaders

    First line leaders are the brave people on the front lines of organizational leadership. They are called upon day in and day out to lead a team.

  • Dropping Your Tools: Letting Go of Non-Productive Habits

    Having the right tools in our toolbox dramatically increases our chance of success. However, relying on the same tool all the time will hinder performance. As the saying goes: "If all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail."

  • Put Your Signature Strengths To Work

    What are you exceptionally good at? What do you love doing so much that you lose track of time when doing it? Chances are, your answers to these questions reveal what psychologists call your “signature strengths.” Learning how to use your signature strengths at work can mean the difference between success and failure—between flourishing and burnout.

  • The (Ugly) Truth about Feedback

    Why are we allergic to feedback? Because we often perceive feedback as (well-intentioned) criticism, which triggers the same kind of response in the brain as physical pain.

  • What it Takes to Follow-Through

    Both talent and effort are necessary for achievement. Talented people often fail for lack of stamina. While talent depends on intelligence (the smarter you are, the faster you learn), effort is directly related to self-control or "grit," according to Psychologist Angela Duckworth.

  • Give Your Self-Control a Boost

    Self-control—the ability to delay gratification, concentrate on a task, resist a temptation, or control emotions—is key to success at work and in life. The good news is that we can improve our willpower.

  • Strengthen Your Willpower

    Willpower. Who wouldn’t like to have more of it? We need willpower when we concentrate on a task, solve a problem or resist a temptation. Read on for tips on how to build your willpower.