The companies we admire are like the people we admire: resilient, authentic, personable, collaborative, ambitious, and humble.
From Chip Conley
Organizations that can diminish fear are those that are able to motivate, create, and innovate.
When people get into that fight-or-flight place, then they move away from the creative centers of their brain.
People don't realize how much control they do have. The more you can show them this control, the easier it is to tap back into the creative side of the brain that allows people to see possibilities and options.
Business principles are only as good as the practices that back them up.
Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude.
I know that when I attached my sense of identity a little too closely to my work that I might be distracting myself from feelings of unworthiness. It wasn't the number of hours I worked or how bloodshot my eyes were that defined the difference. It was something internal.
Whether we're conscious of it or not, our work and personal lives are made up of daily rituals, including when we eat our meals, how we shower or groom, or how we approach our daily descent into the digital world of email communication.
Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them.
Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight.
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