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Building HIgh Performance Teams
Your managerial success is tied to your team. Teams are the most valuable resource of an organization. The times of lone leadership are over with Alexander the Great. These are the times of the team leadership. If you can build a successful team and...
Common Question: Is this business viable?
Starting any small business is, for lack of a better term, a challenge. You can’t just jump into it without plenty of thought and research. Running your business is a never-ending roller coaster of good days and bad; ups and downs; rewards and...
Defining Creativity
The Oxford English Dictionary suggests:
The Oxford English Dictionary suggests: "The ability to create". Fantastic! The Heritage Illustrated Dictionary is a little more helpful: "Characterized by originality and expressiveness, imaginative"....
Start Your Own Online Store For Pennies
Work smarter not harder with the three free online services I reviewed. Setting up your online store is easy and can happen in a matter of a few minutes. Here are the PROS and CONS.
VSTORE
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The Art of Bartering for Web Services
Do you need a specialized task performed for your Web site? Such as a new custom logo? Or a specialized script? Or a new database? Before you reach for your checkbook to pay a commercial company to do the work, consider bartering for the project....
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You're Effective, We're Effective
Every leader wants his or her organization to be effective.
Every leader realizes organizational effectiveness depends on
the effectiveness of individuals. Therefore, it is critical to
remember what is necessary to make an individual effective (not
only for the subordinates, but the leader him/herself).
We have learned (or should have learned) that the unrelenting
24/7 drive toward a goal becomes counter-productive at some
point. As early as 1908, the Yerkes-Dodson Curve demonstrated
the relationship between performance and stress. Initially,
increasing levels of stress increase performance (efficiency).
But, further increases in stress levels cause a plateauing of
effectiveness. And, if stress levels continue to increase,
performance begins to decline rapidly. Extreme and/or
consistently high levels of stress affect our performance and
efficiency, and eventually our health.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) report some disturbing findings about workplace stress.
NIOSH found that "40% of all workers feel overworked, pressured,
and squeezed to the point of anxiety, depression, and disease"
(Harvard Business Review, November 2005, page 53). Obviously,
these workers are not going to be very effective.
So, what's a frustrated, stressed-out manager to do? First, the
manager must apply some basic effectiveness principles to
his/her own work habits.
A lot can be learned by a brief review of Dr. Herbert Benson's
work. Professor Benson, of the Harvard Medical School, has spent
35 years conducting research in the fields of neuroscience and
stress.
It was Benson's bestselling 1975 book, "The
Relaxation
Response," that first described the benefits of using techniques
such as mediation to business managers. His descriptions of
stress and relaxation on the physiological level were quite
convincing.
Benson basically recommends a three-step process to maximize our
effectiveness. First, struggle mightily with the problem. This
step involves the hard work of data gathering and problem
analysis. Eventually your stress level will reach the point
where your effectiveness plateaus and begins to decline. Time
for step two!
Step two involves "walking away" from the problem. It's time to
do something completely different. It's time to relax in a
manner that works best for you (go to the art gallery, get a
massage, "sleep on it," listen to calming music, share a meal
with an old friend). You can do whatever you want to do. But,
here is what you cannot do:
* continue analyzing the problem
* continue controlling the situation
* continue your attachment to the problem
During step two you must disengage!
Step three is the "breakout" step. After you have relaxed and
rejuvenated, you return to the problem with renewed vigor,
creativity, and insight.
To learn more about this "breakout" level of effectiveness, I
recommend Benson's latest book, The Breakout Principle (2003,
with William Proctor), and Csikszentmihalyi's classic
bestseller, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (1990).
About the author:
Dr. Mike Beitler is the author of "Strategic Organizational
Change" and "Strategic Organizational Learning." Read free
chapters from the books at his website,
http://www.mikebeitler.com/
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| The 6 Myths Of Creativity |
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| CreativeClass.org |
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