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  4 Steps to Prevent Stress and Burnout

  "Pressure comes from external demands: deadlines, projects, family demands. But pressure is not stress," Petrie explains. Stress is what people do with that pressure in their minds.

  [ 2013-09-18 04:22 ]
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  Should Business Partners be Friends?

  Classic lines in the film “American Dream in China”: “Don’t play mahjong with your mother-in-law; don’t sleep with a girl smarter than you; don’t start a company with your best friends.” In other words, don’t partner with your best friends. Is this true?

  [ 2013-08-10 08:35 ]
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  Drive

  When carrots and sticks encounter our third drive, strange things begin to happen. Traditional “if-then” rewards can give us less of what we want: They can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, and crowd out good behavior. They can also give us more of what we don’t want: They can encourage unethical behavior, create addictions, and foster short-term thinking. These are the bugs in our current operating system.

  [ 2013-08-01 15:30 ]
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  Eating and Dreaming

  Balancing the demand for quarterly results with the pressure for a profitable future is what good managers do for a living. What do you think you were hired for? You were hired to wrestle a paradox-and pin it to the mat. And not just once, but over and over again. You have to eat, and you have to dream.

  [ 2013-07-26 03:18 ]