To Do Or Not To Do?

To Do Or Not To Do?

Move over, Shake­speare. “To be or not to be” is no longer the ques­tion of the moment. Diana Ren­ner [link] and Steven D’Souza [link] have a bet­ter ques­tion for this mani­a­cal­ly active busi­ness and social world. The two authors (Steven is also one of our...

Do you know what you’re doing?

Stop. Are you fully and totally conscious of what you are doing, feeling, sensing, thinking — right now? Mindfulness has been around for a long time, with the concept traced as far back as the Buddha. But sometimes old news is new again. Mindfulness is Kate...

The Value of Downtime Is Going Up

On a cold day last January, I reported on the latest in summer vacations. The news in my post was about companies such as Daimler that were now making it possible for employees to take time off and not have to worry about emails or checking in with the office. During...

Want to become a real player?

Angry at yourself for wasting time playing Angry Birds too much? Maybe you’re not wasting all that time; maybe you’re just learning how to be more resilient. Jane McGonigal invented the game SuperBetter, wrote a book titled Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better...