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The pressure of an intense physical race combined with methodical target shooting gives biathletes a unique perspective on coping with stress.

To deliver a solid speech, you better entertain, educate and empower your audience, Neil Pasricha writes.

Invest in your people. It's a long-term investment so imagine you work with them your entire life. Now what will you do? To read a transcript of this Leaders...

We often hear about the glass ceiling that stops women […]

Quiet Revolution is excited to spread the word about Morten Hansen’s new book, Great at Work. The author wrote the following blog post for the Quiet Revolution...

Highly extroverted workers are 25% more likely to land a top job, but introverts can make better leaders, research suggests

Over the years, I’ve observed just about every type of leadership development program on the planet. And the sad thing is, most of them don’t even come close to accomplishing what they were designed to do – build better leaders. In today’s column I’ll share the #1 reason leadership development [...]

The burdens of subordinates always seem to end up on the manager’s back. Here’s how to get rid of them.

Here’s what we know – everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes a failure is our own fault. Sometimes it’s because we were counting on something or someone else. It could be in our control, or not. But one thing is for sure: we all make mistakes. Given that reality, here’s the bigger question: how do you handle … Everyone makes mistakes… CONTINUE READING

Stuff to actually say out loud.

Peter Block

Half a century ago, Holocaust perpetrator Adolph Eichmann was on trial. The prosecutor called him “a new kind of killer, the kind that exercises his bloody craft behind a desk.

Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others.

Don’t hit snooze on this game changer.

Lisa Cummings is the creator of Lead Through Strengths, where she helps people find and leverage their strengths at work specifically, but translates them to their personal lives as well. She has 20 years of experience and practice in building strengths instead of fixing and filling gaps within yourself. Lisa uses her own strengths (positivity

You can’t build consensus by arguing.

Don’t fall prey to under or over-scheduling.

Not even a Super Bowl MVP award could make Nick Foles’s head swell after the Eagles thrilling win over the Patriots

Most of us have a tendency to keep a mental […]

Diversity leads to dollars.