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Personal Development

What skills to develop to best hold your role as a manager or leader? What tools to rely on? What subjects to put into practice?

Own Your Words to Gain Authority

David Hollis, Alex Wright

Managers lose credibility when they passively relay messages from their hierarchy—a posture the author describes as “managerial ventriloquism”. It is preferable to take ownership of these messages yourself, using your own words.

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How to Sustain Your Empathy in Difficult Times

Jamil Zaki

Preserving our capacity to demonstrate empathy in difficult times.

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It’s cool to be kind: The value of empathy at work

Jamil Zaki, Bryan Hancock, Brooke Weddle, Lucia Rahilly

This article transcribes an interview between experts from McKinsey and Jamil Zaki, a psychology professor at Stanford University. It simultaneously highlights the virtues and the potential excesses of empathy, in order to help us use it wisely.

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How Companies Can End a Culture of Overwork

Brigid Schulte

Five lines of action to limit the culture of overcommitment within an organization.

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This New Year, Resolve Against Workaholism

Thomas Kelemen, Michael Matthews

Remaining vigilant against what may lead certain team members to workaholism.

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Building the Cognitive Budget for Your Most Effective Mind

Jordan Birnbaum

Managing our cognitive energy like we manage a budget.

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The Science of Choking Under Pressure

Alyson Meister, Maude Lavanchy

How top athletes manage to remain efficient when pressure is the greatest.

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10 Skills Created By The Highly Sensitive Brain

Esther Bergsma

An article on the cognitive functioning of highly sensitive persons and the advantages they may derive from it.

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Le cerveau des personnes très sensibles réagit plus intensément aux émotions

Jadzia Jagiellowicz, Saverio Tomasella

[The brains of highly sensitive persons react more intensely to emotions] What happens in the brain of highly sensitive persons when they are confronted to positive or negative emotions?

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The Psychology Behind Meeting Overload

Ashley Whillans, Dave Feldman, Damian Wisniewski

Why we cannot resist an invitation to attend a meeting.

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