HOW GREAT LEADERS INSPIRE TO ACTION

Posted on April 23, 2012 by

HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN WHEN THINGS DON’T GO AS WE ASSUME?

Or better, how do you explain when others are able to achieve things which seem to defy all of our assumptions? For example: why is apple so innovative? Year after year after year after year, they are more innovative than all their competition. And yet, they are just a computer company just like all the others. They have access to the same talent, the same agencies, the same consultants, the same media – then why is it that they seem to have something different? Why is it that Martin Luther King led the American people to the rights movement? He was not the only man who suffered from the lack of civil rights in America. He certainly was not the only great orator at that time…so why him? And why is it that the Wright brothers were able to figure out controlled powered manned flight when there were certainly other teams that were better qualified, better funded, …and they did not achieve powered manned flight, but the Wright brothers beat them to it. There is something at play here, and this is what…AND WHY:

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THE GLYCEMIC INDEX REVISITED

Posted on December 21, 2011 by

Among all the different ‘diets’ there are out on the market Glycemic Index (GI) has grown to become a very popular one. Actually GI is nothing new, but rather was defined by a researcher many years ago to help diabetes patients to get better control of the blood sugar fluctuations. Therefore there are clearly two categories that would benefit from GI – diabetics for controlling the blood sugar (with a focus on low GI foods) and athletes for rapid recovery (with a focus on high GI foods). But for normal people, can GI be used to fight obesity? The answer is yes, but… Continue reading →

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THE TRUTH, WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CARBS

Posted on December 16, 2011 by

One easily gets confused with high carbs, low carbs, no carbs, fast and slow carbs diets. There are lots of commercial concepts around diets, and most of them simplify reality significantly in order to be able to communicate the message more easily. You might think that there are quick (simple) and slow (complex) carbs and that the quick ones raises the blood sugar too much too fast – and if you can eliminate them from the diet even better – end of story?  Let’s be clear carbohydrate is sugar, so should we not just minimize or even better eliminate this from the diet and we are good? The answer is NO, and here is why: Continue reading →

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5 THINGS YOU MUST KNOW WHEN MANAGING OTHERS AND YOUR OWN TIME

Posted on November 26, 2011 by

What is too long? What is too short? Is 30 min lunch a short and a 3 hour a long lunch? Is a 12 hour working day considered long, short or normal? Why are we estimating time so differently? In his research over the past years Professor Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University has together with other researchers defined how time is understood differently depending on various factors. The basics for managing (and understanding) others comes here:  Continue reading →

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SWEET POISON – THE #1 REASON FOR OBESITY

Posted on November 16, 2011 by

EVERYONE KNOWS THAT SUGAR IS NOT GOOD FOR YOU, BUT TO THIS EXTENT?

Sugar:

  • Is one main cause for the growing problem of obesity (and an active contributor to diabetes, whole range of cardio vascular deceases and certain cancer types)
  • Seriously (temporarily) reduces the efficiency of your immune system
  • Impairs you sleep quality

But what actually happens to the body when you give in and indulge? I’ll give you the situation: Continue reading →

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THE END OF TIME MANAGEMENT

Posted on October 26, 2011 by

Tim Ferriss takes a fresh approach to time management: ‘Forget all about it.’ You should not try to do more in each day – do not hit the trap of the results-by-volume approach. The options are almost limitless to create “busyness”: You could make some misc follow up calls, re-organize documents or outlook contacts, request some documents that are not critical to you, fuzz with your blackberry or iPhone…when you should be prioritizing. In this post I’ll give you two simple and extremely high impact ways of prioritizing effectively. Continue reading →

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HIGHER REWARDS LEAD TO REDUCED EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION AND WORSE RESULTS – AND HERE IS WHY:

Posted on October 19, 2011 by
Some time ago I had the chance to listen to Daniel H. Pink – a provocative author of several best selling books – and his views on what drives motivation. 
I found this so interesting and important that I decided to jot it down and post it

on the blog.

The science is really surprising, almost a little freaky! We are not as endlessly manipulable and as predictable as one would think.

There is a whole stack of unbelievably interesting studies on motivation – I want to give you two.

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