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What Leaders Can Do To Reduce Brain Aging
Brain Aging Is Not Necessarily Inevitable Or Unpreventable As a follow-up to the previous post on What Leaders Should Know About Their Aging Brains, here is some research on what leaders can do to protect the long-term health of their brains and reduce the natural...
What Leaders Should Know About Their Aging Brains
Being Physically Active Improves Thinking Skills and Overall Brain Health Brain aging is inevitable, to some extent, in all of us. But brain aging is experienced differently by everyone. It is not a uniform process. The rate of cognitive decline affects some people...
What Leaders Should Know About Brain Health
Brain Health Is A Lifetime Pursuit, Not Something Left To The Retirement Years The brain is the most metabolically active organ in the body. It requires ten times the fuel of any other organ as it has to run 24/7 without sleep. Weighing around three pounds, the human...
Brain Myths And Facts Leaders Should Know (Part Three)
More Interesting Facts About the Brain for Leaders and Decision Makers Welcome to the third installment in our three-part series of blogs on brain myths and facts that leaders and decision makers should know. Here are the links to the two previous posts — part one...
Brain Myths And Facts Leaders Should Know (Part Two)
Important facts about the brain for leaders and decision makers In the previous blog post on Brain Myths and Facts That Leaders Should Know, I shared some interesting information about four facets of the brain: brain power, brain size, whether we have right-handed or...
Brain Myths and Facts Leaders Should Know (Part One)
Useful Facts About the Brain that Decision Makers Should Know There are numerous myths about the brain, one of which is that we supposedly use only 10% of brains (a myth believed by about 65% of Americans according to a 2013 survey conducted by the Michael J. Fox...
Great Leadership Articles From April 2019
Best Articles on Leadership, Leadership Development and Employee Engagement Welcome to May! It’s hard to believe 2019 is now one-third over. At the start of each month, I like to share the best articles on leadership, leadership development, and employee engagement...
How Anxiety Impacts Leadership And Decision Making
Overcoming Anxiety With the 5-4-3-2-1 Method Anxiety is another type of stressor that many people and leaders face. In fact, anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States, affecting over 40 million adults. Anxiety interferes with the...
Dark Chocolate Reduces Stress
Eating Moderate Amounts of Dark Chocolate is Good for Your Health Now for perhaps the best news you will find in any of our The Art of Great Leadership blog posts, especially if you are a chocolate lover. Science has confirmed what some of us knew - and many of us...
3 More Ways Leaders Can Remain Calm Under Stress
How Leaders Can Remain Calm Under Pressure and Prevent Emotional Hijacking In the previous blog post I shared with you 3 Ways Leaders Can Remain Calm Under Stress. As promised, here are three other ways for leaders (and others) to remain calm under pressure and stress...