Unlocking Your Peak Performance Combo
How To Perform At Your Best Most of us live our entire working lives operating in two distinct (and problematic) zones: 1. Bored out of...
Three Brain-Friendly Tips to Help You Reduce Stress and Anxiety
The Brain-Friendly Newsletter When it comes to managing stress and anxiety, the idea that the body can control the mind seems alien to many of...
Multitasking is crazy
Improve your ability to tackle “deep work” that requires your full concentration with five simple steps: 1. Put your phone in airplane mode so you...
How to reduce insane stress levels
I am often waylaid by executives at post-keynote dinners who confide in me: “Friederike, I’ve tried everything: Meditation, running, yoga…nothing works! I’m constantly overwhelmed. My...
How to hack your focus
You don’t have to practice meditation or become a zen master to learn how to focus. Often, when we are having trouble focusing it’s because...
Schedule a “Meeting of one”
I’m not a fan of meetings, but there is one meeting I do love. I call it “a meeting of one.” This is a meeting...
Use fear learning with care
Fear is the strongest form of learning, but it’s not a good choice if what you are looking for is creativity, critical thinking and innovation....
Performance reviews need a performance review
You don’t have to be a neuropsychologist to realize that the nearly universal dread surrounding the performance review process saps energy and deflates motivation. A...
Dissent is valuable even when it’s incorrect
You can put all the thought diversity in the world in place at your workplace. It will be useless unless your team leaders understand how...
“Us” versus “Them”
Most of the behavior that constitutes what is sometimes called “group dynamics” hinges on our assessment of the people around us as either enemies or...