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Resilience in the Eye of the Storm
Tony Schwartz | News, Triggers, Uncertainty | 4 COMMENTS | November 1, 2012
As I write this, I'm sitting in a hotel room with my wife and dog. We've had no electricity at our home, and therefore no lights, heat, or hot water since Monday, and we've been told it could be another week or more before power is restored. As the temperature dropped steadily, we decided to move to a hotel and were incredibly fortunate. We could afford one, and we somehow got a room. Every hotel within 50 miles of us is now sold out.
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What Women Know about Leadership that Men Don't
Tony Schwartz | Leadership, Mindfulness | 2 COMMENTS | October 31, 2012
No single challenge has been greater for me as a leader than learning how to take better care of the people I lead, and to create a safe, supportive space in which they can thrive. Like most men I know, I grew up with very little modeling around empathy — the ability to recognize, experience and be sensitive to what others are feeling.
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How to Think Creatively
Tony Schwartz | Creativity, Mental Needs | 6 COMMENTS | October 18, 2012
I grew up hungry to do something creative, to set myself apart. I also believed creativity was magical and genetically encoded. As early as the age of 8, I began sampling the arts, one after another, to see if I'd inherited some gift.Eventually, I became a journalist. For many years, I told other people's stories. I was successful, but I rarely felt truly creative.
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Why We Need to Aim Higher
Tony Schwartz | Spiritual Needs | COMMENTS | October 17, 2012
We humans need to make an evolutionary leap. We're in much deeper trouble than we allow ourselves to recognize.
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Battling Your Online Addiction
Tony Schwartz | Focus, Mental Needs | 6 COMMENTS | September 26, 2012
How much time do you spend each day responding to email, checking Facebook, sending and reading Tweets, aimlessly surfing your favorite websites and buying things you don't need? How much time, in other words, do you spend doing stuff online that doesn't add much value in your life, or in anyone else's?Too much, I'm going to guess.
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