Posts Tagged ‘Leadership’
Teresa Kennedy: Total health includes physical AND mental fitness
What excites you the most about your job? As President of Power Living Enterprises, it excites me that we are improving people’s lives through our mind-body training, coaching and consulting services, as well as the content we create. Please tell us about your interest in applied brain science. What areas are you most interested in? What…
Read MoreThe human resources frontier: enhancing wellness and productivity via better brain health
Employers turning to ‘brain health’ tools to reduce stress, increase productivity (HR.BLR.com): “Brain health is not just about disease. It’s not just about depression or anxiety,” says
Read MoreTop 10 Brain Training Trends — Putting our Cognitive Reserve to Work
Yesterday I had the chance to chat with Yaakov Stern, leading Cognitive Reserve researcher at Columbia University, and then with a group of 25 lifelong learners in Arizona who attended a brain fitness class (hello, Robert and friends!) based on our consumer guide The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness. On reflection, I found both conversations…
Read MoreThe Brain Advantage: Train your Autopilot…and how to turn it off
(Editor’s Note: as part of our Author Speaks Series, you can enjoy below a stimulating excerpt from the new book The Brain Advantage: Become a More Effective Business Leader Using the Latest Brain Research). Brain-imaging techniques allow researchers to witness the brain’s activity reflected in a rainbow of colors on a computer screen. When brain…
Read MoreDistracted in the Workplace? Interview with Maggie Jackson around brain health at work
Today we continue the conversation with Maggie Jackson, author of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age. You can read part 1 here. Q — In your Harvard Management Update interview, you said that “When what we pay attention to is driven by the last email we received, the trivial and the…
Read MoreNewsletter: Navigating Games for Health and Education
Here you have the twice-a-month newsletter with our most popular blog posts. Please remember that you can subscribe to receive this Newsletter by email, simply by submitting your email at the top of this page. Quick, Are videogames good or bad? That’s an impossible question. Good or bad for what? What specific games are we talking about?…
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