by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 2, 2021 | Attention, Decisions, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Storytelling Animal, Talking, Work
Conversation Situation Less than 2% of conversations end at a point when both people want them to. GASP. Only about 10% of the time did both people wish the conversation had lasted longer. OY. And: The difference between what people wanted and what they got was, “on...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jul 26, 2021 | Leadership, Attention, Mind Management, Work
Meeting Attacks Maybe you are the one who gets attacked at meetings? Or maybe you are the one doing the attacking? Or the ignoring, which is one of the most powerful forms of attack. Why does this even happen? What is this even about? In the Naked Ape, Desmond Morris...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jul 19, 2021 | Work, Decisions, Fitness, Life, Mismatch
Study Finds Up To 77% Productivity Increase for Hybrid Workers So It’s not just about the What, Why, How, and with Whom — but now more than ever, it’s about Where we work too. Environmental Fitness As per the first line of Getting to G.R.E.A.T.: “A Great Life Depends...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jul 12, 2021 | Attention, Fitness, Sleeping, Stress
Wake Up Benefits Wake Up got messed up for a lot of people when Covid brought us new opportunities for sleeping in and napping more than ever before, unless of course the kids were crawling all over you, but that brought problems of its own. Then again, sleep problems...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jun 28, 2021 | Decisions, Leadership, Mind Mastery
Caterpillar Groupthink Pine Processionary Caterpillars bring new meaning to the term Groupthink. In Jean-Henry Fabre’s famous experiment, each caterpillar had its head on the butt of the one in front of it, going round and round on the rim of a pot. In the...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jun 21, 2021 | Talking, Attention, Mind Mastery, Work
Communication Struggles? Ever notice how hard it is to stay tuned when people drone on, even if you want to pay attention, which a lot of the time you don’t? The Power Pause Mark Twain may not have known the why but he sure did know the what, when he said: “The...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jun 14, 2021 | Decisions, Love, Mind Management, Money, Stress, Work
Bruce thought his problem was that he didn’t have enough money until I got a hold of him, and then got a hold of himself. In no time at all, he realized 1) no amount of money would get rid of the negativity that had a life of its own inside his head, and 2) that the...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jun 7, 2021 | Attention, Emotion, Life, Mind Mastery, Work
Everyone is saying everyone is suffering burnout. It’s as if you’re nobody if you’re not. Same thing as with haters. You’re nobody if you don’t have any haters. Someone on Clubhouse asked if anyone had any haters to spare; he’d like to buy some, felt he didn’t have...
by Madelaine Weiss | May 28, 2021 | Crisis, Life, Stress
Did you know that the Statue of Liberty gets hit by lightning bolts 600 times a year, and that the torch sways 5 inches side to side. That doesn’t happen to us. Or does it? How many times a year, or a week even, do we feel like we are getting hit by something, at work...
by Madelaine Weiss | May 24, 2021 | Leadership, Mind Mastery, Talking
The International Leadership Industry spends about $50 billion/year teaching people authenticity. What does that even mean? What is Authenticity? Here is partial definition from Merriam Webster: 2: not false or imitation : REAL, ACTUAL an authentic cockney accent...
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