Fear shuts people down. When you feel safe, your brain is free to soar. When you feel in danger, your brain goes into survival mode, not peak performance mode. Too many people feel unsafe at work, under toxic pressures, and… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
I would suggest that excellence occurs in direct proportion to necessary suffering, but in inverse proportion to unnecessary suffering or toxic stress. Connection is… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
We live in a paradox: connected electronically but disconnected interpersonally. However, when you recognize the problem, you can take steps to correct it. You… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
In order to do what really matters to you, you have to, first of all, know what really matters to you. — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
Lack of respect for the worker. This nourishes disconnection, fear, anger, phoniness, and all the bad stuff that impedes excellence. — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
Several elements of the ADD mind favor creativity…As mentioned earlier, the term 'attention deficit' is a misnomer. It is a matter of attention inconsistency.… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
No work is "most important." Or, put differently, all work is important but work done poorly becomes most important. — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
I agree with Stephen Covey that too many people spend too much time on doing what is urgent rather than on doing what is… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
All connections matter, but the people you depend upon matter most. — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
Modern loneliness is an extraverted loneliness, in which the person is surrounded by many people and partakes of much communication but feels unrecognized and… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
Newcomers should be put in an established position where the expectations are known and help is available. New major assignments should mainly go to… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
Fear shuts people down. When you feel safe, your brain is free to soar. When you feel in danger, your brain goes into survival… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
A human moment is a term I invented to distinguish in-person communication from electronic. Human moments are exponentially more powerful than electronic ones. I… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
Young people beginning a career need to realize that there are lots of "buses" in life. More often than not, selecting which one to… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
It is especially important for managers to know about, neuroplasticity, the greatest discovery in neuroscience in the past 20 years. It refers to the… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
From the biological standpoint, people deprived of the human moment in their day-to-day business dealings, actually in all domains of their lives, are losing… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
