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Self-control (those marshmallows again)
Latest research from New Zealand demonstrates that childhood levels of self-control are clearly linked with outcomes later in life. 1,000 NZ children were assessed at 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11 years of age and...
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The Science of Self-control – use it or lose it
A survey of almost 600 adults by the American Psychological Association found that 93% had set themselves behavioural change goals for 2012. This was even though fewer than half had actually succeeded...
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Self-control, again
I’ve posted recently on self-control so I was interested to read a post from PsyBlog, one of my favourite bloggers, about the impact of money on self-control. In fact it was the mere mention of money...
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My most read posts in 2012
Yes it’s the time of year when I get my feedback from WordPress about whether or not anyone out there actually read my posts and which they liked the best. I wrote a measly 17 posts last year – falling...
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Motivating yourself needs the right words
Pretty much everyone knows about using self talk to help improve self-control. It’s become a staple of most self-improvement books and life coaches as well as sports coaches. But it turns out that the...
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Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
I first posted this in 2010 after coming across a great article on Emotional Intelligence by Dan Bobinski in Management Issues. He maintained that 2/3 of the difference between average and top...
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Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: Command & Self-control
“Successful executives see trouble as an opportunity and not a threat“, wrote Carly Chynoweth in the Sunday Times when I first posted this in 2010. Has anything changed? The article was about the...
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Resilient Leadership
Over the years there have been many approaches to leadership with trait theories, style theories, functional models, situational/contingency models, transactional/transformational theories, ideas about...
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From Rags to Riches and an early grave
The struggle to climb out of the gutter extracts a toll on your health according to a recent American study. Researchers from Northwestern University studied around 300 rural African-American...
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Raisins and Marshmallows
You must all have heard about the famous “marshmallow” experiments by Walter Mischel at Stanford University about 50 years ago. He was exploring the idea of delayed gratification among school children....
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