Emotions

Managing the Critical Voices Inside Your Head

Peter Bregman

Restoring order to our little inner voices.

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The Neurochemistry of Positive Conversations

Judith E. Glaser, Richard D. Glaser

Deciphering the physiological mechanisms associated with emotions.

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Overcome the Eight Barriers to Confidence

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

A useful reminder of the traps that easily make us lose confidence and undermine our motivation and willpower.

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16 Habits of Highly Sensitive People

Amanda L. Chan

A checklist to identify highly sensitive persons around you and better understand how they function.

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L’effet de compensation morale ou comment les « bonnes actions » peuvent aboutir à une situation indésirable

Sophie Clot, Gilles Grolleau, Lisette Ibanez, Peguy Ndodjang

[The moral compensation effect or how “good deeds” can lead to an undesirable situation] An analysis of recently conducted research showing that an action perceived as being morally positive could contribute to disinhibit people and trigger them to allow themselves less moral actions elsewhere.

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A Better Return on Self-Awareness

David Zes

An analysis of 7,000 employee self-evaluations from 450 publicly quoted companies that shows a correlation between the level of self-knowledge of the employees and the stock-exchange performance of the company.

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When Work Gets Personal: Managing Emotional Employees

Some advice to better manage intensely emotional situations that occur in the life of each team.

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The History of Happiness

Peter N. Stearns

A salutary perspective on happiness as a personal or societal ideal.

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Enquête sur le bonheur personnel et professionnel en 2012

A pan-European study on the benefits of wellbeing at work for the company, as well as on the factors that influence it.

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Survival of the most self-aware

J. Evelyn Orr

An anaysis of the results of several thousands of 360° evaluation, underlining the scale of the lack of self-knowledge, even at the highest positions

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