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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.

Psychologist Susan David shares how the way we deal with our emotions shapes everything that matters: our actions, careers, relationships, health and happiness. In this deeply moving, humorous and potentially life-changing talk, she challenges a culture that prizes positivity over emotional truth and discusses the powerful strategies of emotional agility. A talk to share.

It’s a cloudy Tuesday in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and for probably only time in my life, I’m wearing hospital greens and scrubbing in for surgery. Beside me is Dr.

Justin Baldoni wants to start a dialogue with men about redefining masculinity -- to figure out ways to be not just good men but good humans. In a warm, personal talk, he shares his effort to reconcile who he is with who the world tells him a man should be. And he has a challenge for men: "See if you can use the same qualities that you feel make you a man to go deeper," Baldoni says. "Your strength, your bravery, your toughness: Are you brave enough to be vulnerable? Are you strong enough to be sensitive? Are you confident enough to listen to the women in your life?"

An up-to-date list of the most innovative speakers in leadership.

Without offending anyone.

And how to motivate them to stay.

The other day I said to my boss, “After this is over, I’d like to sit down and talk thru where I made mistakes or where I made all of this harder than it should have been.” Fifteen years ago I would have never said that. It would have been a request to have someone … Leaders ask for feedback CONTINUE READING

They’re all hard to improve because they run counter to our instincts.