by Madelaine Weiss | Feb 21, 2022 | Attention, Decisions, Leadership, Stress, Talking, Time, Work
The Problem with Meetings It’s happening. People are going back to the office. Probably not 5 days per week. Possibly not that ever again. One young professional told me that it will be 2 days per week in-person, mostly for meetings. Then he added that people would be...
by Madelaine Weiss | Jan 31, 2022 | Decisions, Fitness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Success
Benefits of Minimal Exercise Wow, only 10 minutes of mild exercise and I’m already smarter than I was 10 minutes ago? Makes you wonder, doesn’t it, why anybody would not just do it. Only, a lot of people just don’t. In fact, according to HealthyPeople.Gov 2020: “More...
by Madelaine Weiss | Dec 13, 2021 | Attention, Decisions, Happiness, Leadership
A Proverb You Know He who hesitates is lost. You know that proverb, but did you know that He was actually a She, originating in a play by Joseph Addison in 1713. You can decide for yourself how the female decider in this proverb morphed male over time. But that would...
by Madelaine Weiss | Nov 29, 2021 | Crisis, Decisions, Happiness, Leadership, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
Big Decisions on Steroids What used to be just for mid-lifers is now available to everyone—the chronic, if not crippling, weight of decisions about which way to turn in our lives. The great pause of the pandemic gave us all the time and space to do this. People began...
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 | Attention, Leadership, 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...
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