In 2008, Amy Edmondson, a researcher and professor at the Harvard School of Business, was invited to Google’s headquarters to conduct, together with other colleagues, a large-scale study of the […]
Our mind is always surprising, and if we know its idiosyncrasies and know how to use it to our advantage, we will never be bored. Let’s take summer and summer […]
During therapy sessions I often hear various beliefs that people have linked to their workplace. Some of them turn out to be based on real experiences and then overgeneralized, others […]
Which would be a good enough reason for you to do something risky (aka putting your life in danger)? A need to push your limits, the sense of adventure? Fame? […]
“Not all psychopaths are in prison – some are in the boardroom. If I hadn’t been able to study psychopaths in prison, I could have gone to the stock market.” […]
You’re a participant in an experiment: you are in a room, there’s a list of correct answers in front of you; in the next room there is someone else, another […]
In a previous article I was telling you about the toxic overlap between perfectionism and the pursuit of excellence. You’ll find here 3 of the most common justifications that pop […]
These days there has been some discussion in Romania about mental health or, rather, about mental disorders. It’s a more than necessary discussion. I don’t believe the tone and the […]
Without necessarily being aware of it, we operate on inner mental representations of what the standard of quality in our work means: what competence entails, what it means to be […]
1848, Vienna. Diseases are transmitted through the unpleasant odors in the air, especially in poor areas, aren’t they lucky that the imperial city is rich… However, the death rate is […]