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Healthy habits research among leaders
“One leader we work with recalls a time when her workload was so high that she started getting up at 4am and working for a few hours before her team started the day, just [...]
Get moving for your brain. Physical activity and wellbeing
‘Exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms of mood, memory and learning’ - John Joseph Ratey, M.D. Clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Are you losing focus [...]
Working overtime? Insights from research and law
You might have seen the headlines recently: working long hours isn’t good for our health. Maybe you read the headlines and chose to blissfully ignore them, excusing yourself as the exception to the rule. [...]
How to talk about long working hours and help people shift their behaviour
People tend to work longer hours because they believe it’s expected of them: In times of financial uncertainty or other life uncertainty, people become more concerned about their work to seem more productive, fear [...]
Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota (Book review)
Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota (Penguin House, Released 2 March 2021) I recently listened to this audio book and was fascinated by this highly competent and driven young woman’s description of how studying and [...]
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