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We unpack behavior science, habit research, and academic research to provide practical insight into how to upgrade your people's critical thinking, communication, people management, and time management skills

How to Build Your Team’s Critical Thinking Skills critical thinking people management Oct 30, 2019

Critical thinking ranks among the most in-demand skills for job candidates and leads to better life and job outcomes.

Value of critical thinking skills

However, both educational institutions and employers have found it...

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How to Know If Burnout is Coming Your Way a Year in Advance resilience Oct 21, 2019

What if you could tell if you or a colleague were going to burn out a full year before it was to happen?

For companies and their leaders, the value would be tremendous. Burnout among...

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Loving Your Job Won’t Protect You From Burnout. This Will. resilience time management Oct 18, 2019

Like many of my classmates, shortly after college, I joined the ranks of a top strategy and management consulting firm. I knew I was signing up for long hours.

But the reality of that didn’t...

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The 6 Research-Based Factors that Determine Whether You’ll Burn Out resilience Oct 04, 2019

By now, we’ve all been fairly warned of the increasing prevalence and consequences of burnout, but actively preventing it isn’t easy. You first must know what causes it....

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3 Questions That Cause the Most Workplace Stress & Lead to Burnout resilience Sep 18, 2019

When the World Health Organization (WHO) updated its definition of burnout in late May to label it as a “syndrome,” it made official what millions already knew by...

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Productive Managers Avoid These ‘Shortcuts’ In Order to Save Time people management time management Jul 12, 2019

Productive people work faster than their peers, constantly finding shortcuts to get work done in less time than their peers. That’s what I thought when I started my...

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3 Common Business Practices You Should Apply to Your Personal Life to Improve Your Well-Being resilience May 31, 2019

In January 2017, I decided I would leave my job at a Boston-based management consulting firm to start a company in the small, northern California city of Redding that I had moved to six months...

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Critical Thinking & The Science of Picking Winning Ideas critical thinking Apr 23, 2019

If you’ve been reading business publications like this Inc. or Harvard Business Review, you likely have a high value for creativity and innovation. You probably spend a lot of...

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Critical Thinking, Not Creative Thinking, Led to Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook critical thinking Apr 02, 2019

When we think of the greatest minds, we tend to default to those who see into the future and come up with history-changing ideas out of thin air. These are the people who possess unusual levels of...

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How to Create a Team Environment Where Critical Thinking Flourishes critical thinking people management Mar 12, 2019

Ranking number two on the World Economic Forum’s list of top skills required for the high-paying jobs of 2020 is critical thinking. And critical thinking is only beat by...

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How Productive Mindsets Boost Employee Engagement resilience time management Nov 12, 2018

Founder Matt Plummer was featured in this extensive report by Hubstaff, which provides a time-tracking app. Below is the selection from Matt found in the “Experience Well Being”...

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Unicorn Syndrome: Why Most Reject Research That Would Help Them Develop Professionally critical thinking people management Oct 30, 2018

When coaching or training people on how to reach their full potential at work, it’s easy for me to get them riled up in less than a minute: tell them they should have less than 3 email...

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