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Mark's Remarks3 Reasons a Culture of Trust is Good for an Organization
The trust culture holds employees in high esteem. The trust culture takes a deep interest in the lives of its employees. The trust culture holds employees accountable for performing their jobs. See Paul Zak, “Moral Markets,” Journal of Economic Behavior &...
The Body Keeps the Score
A good reminder to look for the humanity in others: in his excellent book THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE, the psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk wrote about his teacher making the rounds with him in a psychiatric hospital. “What would you call this patient,” van der Kolk...
The Top 5 Items that Gave People the “Most Meaning and Purpose in Their Jobs”
Interesting Work Realize My Full Potential as a Person Being Associated with a Good Organization Being Associated with an Ethical Organization Making Money Please note: “Making Money” landed in fifth place See Ian I. Mitroff and Elizabeth A. Denton, A Spiritual Audit...
An old and fascinating story
Yesterday, we noted that when we tell a story, we can help people listening connect from the left brain to the right, we can summon them to invest in the story, and that the listeners can even find multiple meanings and lessons in the story. Today, allow me to pass...
3 Things You Can Do with a Story
Build a bridge from the right part of the listener’s brain to the left. Summon the listener to natural invest in the story. Grease the wheels for the listener to find more than one lesson in the story. See: Jerry Biberman, Satinder Kumar Dhiman, and Joan Marques,...
3 Characteristics of the Type A Personality in the Workplace
The Type A personality is still linked to “high work performance and accomplishment.” Because of this, the Type A personality still contains an allure in many organizations. The Type A personality includes a “hostile” component that will more likely contribute to high...