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Leadership and Mindfulness
Mindfulness can be both a barrier and an antidote to the many disrupting stresses and pressures leaders face Leadership, as I define it, is the art of achieving progress through the involvement and actions of others. This makes leadership both an art and a science,...
How You Can Help Reduce the Rapid Increase of Dementia and Alzheimer’s
There Is No Excuse In Allowing Dementia To Increase By 60% In The Next Decade The main purpose of my new book Better Decisions Better Thinking Better Outcomes is to help everyone move from operating in a mind full mode, a kind of autopilot state where you are highly...
Stress and Our Overloaded Brains Cause Conflict and Drama at Work
Time to make your workplace less stressful, more engaging and more productive I had several reasons for writing Better Decisions Better Thinking Better Outcomes, some of which I shared in the previous post on how reducing stress and increasing brain health leads to...
Book Review: The Leadership Killer
Reclaiming the role of leader as a noble, principled and essential human responsibility The Leadership Killer by Bill Treasurer and John Havlik is by far the best book on leadership I have read over the past several years. Anyone who is in a leadership position – at...
Reducing Stress and Increasing Brain Health Leads to Better Decisions
Doing so also improves thinking skills and enhances analytical capabilities Everyone knows about the benefits of aerobic exercise and proper nutrition on cardiovascular and overall health. Yet so few people are aware of how exercise, nutrition, and mindfulness can...
The Impact of Chronic Stress on Decision Making
Leaders Are Not Fully Aware Of How Chronic Stress Triggers Poor Decisions My research into Alzheimer’s disease began when I started to assist my father in the latter years of his life. After his passing my research intensified, mostly for selfish reasons (I certainly...
14 Top Leadership Articles From November
Best Articles on Great Leadership, Leadership Development and Leadership Skills Welcome to December! Another New Year is almost upon us. I have updated our Recommended Leadership Articles website page with the 14 best articles I read in November. Here’s the link:...
Baby Boomers Are Increasingly Caring For Aged Parents With Dementia
The Financial and Emotional Costs of Caring for Parents with Dementia are Increasing In the last two blog posts, I have shared worrying concerns about the increased obesity in the Baby Boomer generation and the risks of multitasking on brain health for the Generation...
Stop Multitasking: It’s A Crime Against Your Brain
Multitasking Creates Brains That Cannot Concentrate Or Focus In the previous blog post I shared with you the troubling health trend of the aging and rapidly increasing obesity in the Baby Boomer Generation. And as I mentioned there are two troubling health trends...
Health Trends Every Leader Should Worry About
Take Actions Today to Build and Maintain Brain Health There are two major health trends happening in the United States — and in fact around many parts of the world — that should be highly concerning to both leaders and societies. The first, which I will share with...