Success

This Is Exactly How Much Time You Should Take Off In A Year
01:30 2017-12-14

Newsflash: Vacation time reduces anxiety, slashes stress, and cuts your risk of heart disease—by up to 32 percent, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association. And yet, we as a nation are overwhelmingly forgoing taking time off. One report, per the U.S. Travel Association, indicates that more than half of all Americans leave …

3 Reflective Ways to Refocus Your Thinking for Success
01:30 2017-12-14

When what we’re experiencing in our lives is disturbing our peace—it is not necessarily reality. It’s not the screen that needs to be fixed or cleaned up; it’s actually the lens with which you’re viewing reality. Most of the time when the life we’re seeing feels stressful—when what we’re experiencing in our lives is disturbing …

This Elon Musk Email to Tesla Employees Is a Powerful Lesson in Authentic, Heartfelt Leadership
22:06 2017-12-13

Elon Musk is one of the world’s most popular entrepreneurs. As the guiding force behind Tesla, SpaceX, and OpenAI — not to mention helping to found PayPal — he tackles some of the biggest challenges. That includes some of the biggest leadership challenges. Who better to know that than Daniel Coyle, the author of the …

1 Personality Trait Steve Jobs Always Looked for When Hiring for Apple
19:40 2017-12-13

From the early days of Apple, Steve Jobs knew he wanted the build a successful company. At one point, Apple hired two “professional” managers from outside the company. Then Jobs promptly fired them. “It didn’t work at all,” a young Steve Jobs says in a video making the rounds on YouTube. “Most of them were …

The 3 Simple Strategies Google Uses to Help Its Employees Learn
19:06 2017-12-13

In a McKinsey global survey, 90 percent of respondents said that building capabilities (anything an organization does well that drives meaningful business results) is a top ten priority for their company. And clearly, they weren’t kidding. In 2012, the Association of Talent Development reported that U.S. organizations spent $164.2 billion on employee learning and development. …