As a person with high inituition, I have always been a fan of listening to my gut. The direction I get from my heart is statistically far more accurate and practical than when I get my head involved. Appears our gut may also be more ethical than our brains. Chen-Bo Zhong of the University of Toronto [...]
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Recently I learned about several startling medical facts : 65% of women ages 20 to 39 have a risk for heart disease, such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity or smoking (from the National Center for Health Statistics). 22% of women in their 20′s (yes, in their twenties) have high cholestrol and 68% of young women don’t [...]
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Over the last decade, we’ve unmasked people in a variety of occupations that were not what they appeared to be. Bernie Madoff and Tiger Woods are the most recent of an influential list of seemingly reputable people who have fallen from our grace. This begs a number of questions – “Did their character really change? or [...]
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Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves are turning the tables on current leadership thinking in their recently published Emotional Intelligence 2.0. Most noteably is their assertion that 58% of performance stems from emotional rather than intellectual intelligence. EQ not IQ. This idea isn’t really new. But certainly the magnitude of the finding is compelling. Despite thought [...]
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