A radical approach to stress (Accounting for stress: tolerance vs burden)

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Too much stress in your life? Wrong question! It’s not the intensity of stress that matters, it’s the sustainability. Stress is not a mono-dimensional indicator; like a cash-flow statement, stress has two entries: burden or exposure on the negative side; and tolerance or resistance on the positive side. Your stress sustainability is simply your net stress score (tolerance – burden). Knowing your burden and tolerance levels, generates precise stress tactics; knowing your net stress score, generates your stress strategy. It’s very actionable.

Beware with rewards – they rarely motivate

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You want to motivate your managers to focus more on business critical items? Such as the development of their team members? Or prospection at new accounts? Chances are you’ve included these critical items in their objectives, with a performance-linked bonus. Nothing against that if you only want to encourage and co-responsibilise your managers in the short term. But there’s a catch: if you want to create intrinsic long-time motivation, forget about rewards. They just don’t work. In business they don’t work and at home they don’t work. So what does?

2 simple tricks to be in the right job

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You are looking for a new job? You have this opportunity to move to another division or country inside your company but hesitate? You consider launching your own business? Or you simply want to make sure your current job is the right one for you? The answer is simple: passion and talent – or pass.