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Food for Thought: A Weekly Column from Peter Vajda, PhD.
So you think you can lead - Jul 2, 2009 - 6:43:43 PM
In today's face-paced, challenging, often-ambiguous and uncertain economic climate, where stress is rampant and anxiety and fear seem to be the emotions of choice driving many leaders' behaviors, more and more leaders seem to be losing touch with their employees, fostering a climate of poor morale, dis-engagement, stress, overt or silent anger and resentment.
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Food for Thought: A Weekly Column from Peter Vajda, PhD.
Equanimity - serenity within the chaos - Jun 26, 2009 - 9:08:43 AM
It seems most everyone I know is experiencing life these days caught up in some flavor of crisis or conflict either at work, at home, at play or in relationship. They're experiencing a form of conflict and stress around issues, for example, like leading and managing, or processes, deadlines, budgets and job security, or personal relationships and unresolved conflicts, or how to resolve health and education challenges, or whether what they are doing is what they really want to be doing with their life.
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Food for Thought: A Weekly Column from Peter Vajda, PhD.
"Weisure" - what nonsense! The need for real R&R - Jun 18, 2009 - 5:53:52 PM
New York University sociologist, Dalton Conley, has recently coined the term: "weisure" – the result of blurring the line dividing work and leisure. More and more, work is carrying over into folks' leisure time. It appears that places and activities usually regarded as "fun only" are now work-play ambiguous. No surprise here! Some, including Conley, say the work-leisure phenomena is happening because more folks are finding work to be fun and want to stay connected during leisure periods. Really! Who's kidding whom!?
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Food for Thought: A Weekly Column from Peter Vajda, PhD.
"The Microwave is too slow!" - May 29, 2009 - 2:52:12 PM
The other day I was speaking with a neighbor - a single, 50-something woman who's a high-level executive for a Fortune 50 company. She was coming home from work, carrying some packages. At the end of our conversation I said, "Enjoy your evening." She replied, "Oh, I will. I have some delicious take-out." Taking a step, and perhaps feeling guilty, perhaps feeling she needed to add some context, she stopped and added, "I have some good stuff in the fridge but these days the microwave just takes too long."
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