Today (March 20, 2019) is the United Nations International Day of Happiness. First celebrated in 2013, this day illustrates a global shift away from measuring “progress” in terms of economic growth and toward greater emphasis on human well-being. In essence, this day embodies what so many of us do in the social-impact world: striving to […]
There’s a lot of information swirling around these days about how to create (and stick with) healthy habits. Some techniques you come across may be backed by research, while others may simply be what’s worked for one person. But brain science has advanced significantly in the past several years, and we now know more than […]
Are you afraid to make use of your vacation time? It seems that a majority of the U.S. workforce is: while employees took an average of 17.2 vacation days in 2017, 52% didn’t use up all of their allotted vacation time. According to research by Project: Time Off, this added up to 705 million unused […]
Years ago, in his research on learning and socialization, Edward Schein, now Professor Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management, made an important distinction between two kinds of anxiety: “learning anxiety” and “survival anxiety.” It turns out these concepts, which he applied to organizational change and growth throughout the course of his career, can […]
