by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 17, 2020 | Crisis, Decisions, Emotion, Mind Management, Mismatch
High Stress Situation Not even counting all of the other pandemic stress, we have this unbelievably testy election coming up. A lot of people are really cranky with anyone who sees anything different from what they see and believe themselves. How did we get so...
by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 10, 2020 | Emotion, Mind Management, Work
A Whole Different Vibe It’s not always like this but it could be: A committee in my community put together a resident speaker series. One resident not on that committee just this week wrote out of the blue how grateful she was for the impact to the community: “A...
by Madelaine Weiss | Oct 5, 2020 | Attention, Emotion, Life, Mind Management, Work
Who Does It? Some more than others for sure—but humans do lie. At a conference on Lying, everyone was asked to raise their hands if they had lied in the past 2 weeks. I did not raise my hand. Almost everyone else did. Then they asked how many had lied that day, same...
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 27, 2020 | Decisions, Emotion, Life, Mind Management, Work
The Situation It doesn’t have to be like this—that so many people are unhappy with work. We know that 83% of US workers are suffering from work stress and that there are 120,000 deaths each year related to it. Sometimes working people think they are in the wrong...
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 6, 2020 | Emotion, Life, Love, Mind Management, Work
What I Did for Love? I nagged my clients, my kids—and anyone else who would let me—to please look at the update of a blockbuster classic, now titled The New One Minute Manager. It’s only about 100 little pages, with lots of white space, so you can...
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 30, 2020 | Crisis, Decisions, Emotion, Mind Management, Mismatch, Spending
Maybe you wish social status wasn’t a thing. But it is. Always was and, near as I can tell, always could be because humans are so wired for it. Humans are wired to strive for status—and to have a keen eye for who does and doesn’t have it—because back in the day when...
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