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Resilience – No Curiosity is Killing Homo-Sapiens
Don’t you just love the expression: “Curiosity killed the cat”? It is a phrase that I have heard so many times, especially as a child, trying to learn about things and maybe even trying to understand life a little better. As children we were told that curiosity killed...
Resilience – Change Fatigue
If we are honest with ourselves, it is clear that change is here to stay. As a Business Professional you have to realise that your ability to cope and adapt with change will be one of your core keys to success. I love the words of Eric Hofner: “In times of change the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” Hofner reminds us that change waits for no one and that the Business Professional will have to equip themselves with tools to manage an environment where change will only accelerate.
Resilience – Reprogram Your Brain
The biggest challenge for us as emerging Business Professional is that we live in a very fast paced world. Things are constantly changing and the ability to adapt has become essential for survival in our world of speed. One of the ways we can stay on track in our...
Resilience – Investing in a New Intelligence
Human beings have always believed that cognitive intelligence (IQ) is the key to success. In the 1940’s David Weshler realised after extensive research that there are certain non-intellectual abilities, that actually cause individuals to succeed. How did he realise this? He studied people with a fairly average cognitive intelligence that performed much better than those with a fairly high cognitive intelligence, and during the late 1980’s psychologists started talking about these abilities as emotional competence. Psychologists Salovey and Mayer did an extensive study on social intelligence and emotional competence and in 1990 coined the term “Emotional Intelligence”
Resilience – The Essence of Character
It has become all too easy to criticize the unethical behaviours of corporate and political leaders these days. Our eyes have been opened to the fact that lapses of ethical behaviour happens every day in the corporate world and in private lives. The reality is that the most ethical human beings can fall prey to the lures of riches and abundance. For this reason it is important for the emerging Business Professional to constantly develop and monitor his/her character and not only adhere to professional codes of conduct.