Toxic work cultures drain employees’ energy, turning them into depressed, angry and unhappy people. Toxic work culture traits usually include exclusion, incivility, harassment, insecurity, long working hours, and authoritarianism which creates fear, anxiety and stress...
Summary: (Read the research following) Economic inequality has negative impacts on the wealthy as well as the rest of the population. The U.S. has the greatest economic/income inequality among Western nations. Wealthy people are less interested in connecting with...
There’s a fair likelihood that the majority of the issues in your life and at work are caused by a lack of slack, which is the freedom of action required to make changes. Tom DeMarco, author of Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total...
The Growing Problem of Noise The arc of modern life seems unavoidable, even if COVID shelter-in-place orders temporarily reduced decibel levels. This includes more cars, helicopters, buzzing drones, pinging devices, ringing hospital monitors, screaming TVs in waiting...
There are several widespread fallacies about productivity, according to neuroscientist Dean Burnett, author of the best-selling books , The Idiot Brain, and The Happy Brain as well as the well-liked Guardian Science blog “Brain Flapping.” Myth 1: Your job...
Much has been researched and written by researchers and other professionals (including me) about the “bad” or dark side of humanity. And the current chaos and conflict in our world would naturally lead many to believe in the darker side of humanity, leaving them to...
