Cope with Work Stress

It has been widely believed that the most stressful jobs arethose in the IT, nursing care, education, secretarial, andservice industries. There are also surveys that includedlawyers, engineers, marketers, and human resource personnelamong the most stressed professionals. Is it true that if youare in these professions, you must necessarily feel stressfulat work? Can there not be occupational

Leaders as Role Models

Everybody has a role model, someone who has done the samejob we are doing or taken the same path of life we are travelingon. Sometimes, we are embarrassed or are too ego-consciousto admit having a role model. The reality is that withouttapping on the knowledge and experience of the people whohave succeeded before us, we are likely to fall into the samepits that they could have fallen into or

Trust Gut Instincts and Intuition

Are decisions made by gut feelings good? Business writerMalcolm Gladwell seemed to think so. In his bestselling bookBlink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, he presentedcogent arguments on how decisions made in an instant, almostwithout thinking, stood up better than decisions made afteranalytical considerations. Dotted with examples like how afire-fighter suddenly knows when to leave a