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How Stress Pushes Leaders Into Bad Decisions
The more stressful the situation, the more leaders need to explore a wide range of options and potential solutions. Unfortunately, stress often prevents this. As I wrote in the previous blog on How Stress Impacts Decision Making By Leaders, when under stress people...
How Stress Impacts Decision Making By Leaders
When Under Stress Leaders Tend to Make Reactionary Decisions In the previous post, I shared with you how Prolonged Stress Impacts Brain Health for leaders. Today let's look at the impact of stress on decision making. .Feeling stressed changes how people — including...
Leaders: Here’s The Impact Of Stress On Your Brains
Prolonged Stress Is Not Good For Long-Term Brain Health There is a greater increase in cognitive stress in leaders than ever before, mostly as a result of information overload combined with an ever-increasing array of distractions and interruptions. Leaders need to...
Leaders Should Be Concerned About What Stress Is Doing To Them
Stress Is Hurting Leaders In Multiple Ways As we shared in an earlier blog on How Stress Impacts the Workplace, numerous studies show that job stress is far and away the major source of stress for American adults and that it has escalated precariously over the past...
Stress In The Workplace Is Harmful For Leaders
Workplace Stress Impacts Leaders In Many Ways The effects of constant and chronic stress are well known. In his book The Happiness Handbook, Dr. David Lee cites Robert Sapolsky, a professor of biological sciences and an authority on stress at Stanford University, in...
Long Periods Of Stress Are Unhealthy For Leaders And Employees
Workplace Stress Can Have Major Negative Effects on Our Bodies, Minds, Emotions, and Behavior As athletes are well aware, peak performance can be activated through moderate and short-term periods of stress. Thus, feeling slightly nervous and anxious about an important...
Workplace Stress Is Contagious
Leaders Should Use Mindfulness Techniques to Control and Reduce Their Own Stress In our previous blog post on The Costly Impact of Workplace Stress, we shared with you that workplace stress is costing U.S. employers over $500B annually. Yes, 500 billion dollars goes...
The Costly Impact of Workplace Stress
Managing the Stress of Others is Stressful for Leaders As I highlighted in the previous blog post on How Stress Impacts The Workplace, stress is not only a major obstacle in life, it is also a major cost for businesses and organizations. According to the American...
How Stress Impacts The Workplace
Job Stress is the Major Source of Stress for American Adults Stress is a major obstacle in life. A recent survey from the American Psychological Association (APA) states that nearly 50% of Americans are kept awake at night due to stress. And numerous studies have...
Why Leaders Are Susceptible to Monkey Brain
Mindfulness Is an Excellent Way for Leaders to Control Their Busy Brains As we mentioned in the previous blog post on Why Mind Full Leaders Are Slow and Incompetent Decision Makers, leaders need to switch from mind full to mindful mode in order to make better...