Your imagination is sometimes your worst enemy in the fight against workplace stress
At work, imagination can be both a blessing and a curse. It fuels innovation, but also produces the ability to imagine many situations and problems that don�€™t yet exist—and probably never will. How much of the stress people feel at work is directly [...]

Failure is a reality of life for all of us. None of us achieve what we want all the time. Expert leaders do not have less failure than entry-level leaders. Expert leaders simply have a better-built “Failure Factory.”

This Failure Factory is not the production line; failure is a given in life and is produced just [...]

Today, I am pleased to welcome our first �€œtrial�€� guest author: Rhett Laubach.

Rhett is a professional speaker, author, leadership expert and founder/operator of YourNextSpeaker, LLC in Edmond, OK.
Please use either the comments or the 5-star rating system at the end of the article to let me know your reactions to this piece. I want all [...]

Looking again at the causes of stress at work
Are the true causes of stress internal or external? The external demands of working life? Or how you react to them internally? Getting rid of self-induced stress might make all the difference.
People love to find simple causes for things. Nowadays, just about every drought, flood, or [...]

The more you focus on what you don�€™t want, the more of it you�€™ll keep finding to get rid of.
What you give most attention to nearly always assumes a larger role in your life. This isn�€™t some nutty �€œlaw of attraction�€� nonsense; it�€™s a simple observation of the way that the human mind works. People [...]

Corporations have a love affair with micro-management
�€œOver last ten years or so, I�€™ve noticed a definite shift, particularly in the expectations that top executives demand from mid-level managers. I now believe that the commonly held definition of management, at least for that middle level, is more akin to either simply, �€˜Getting things done�€™, �€˜Getting things [...]

Slow Leadership will be joining in the first Blog Action Day on October 15th.

Our mission here at Slow Leadership isn’t just about slowing down and creating a better work/life balance: it’s all about creating a more civilized world, at work and outside. That’s why we’ve decided to put our weight behind this initiative and help [...]

The worst kind of management obsolescence occurs in the mind
People tend to stick with the beliefs they were brought up with—at least until they�€™re forced to change. That�€™s why much of workplace culture has hardly been affected by the changed notions coming from the academic world and elsewhere; and why we’re paying the price for [...]

The response to my search for guest bloggers has been nearly all I could have wished for and next week will see the start of a short period of “trial” posts by each of those selected.

I am inviting you, our generous and loyal readership, to take part in this experiment by letting me know how [...]

Why do we persist in trying to turn ourselves (and other people) into what we and they plainly are not?
Expectations are major sources of stress, especially those that are more or less doomed from the start. Instead of trying to turn yourself into someone else, with totally different abilities, why not focus on becoming better [...]