You got up tired this morning, feeling like you haven’t slept for a minute. While drinking your third cup of coffee you’re starting to think that caffeine is probably not the answer. A light rest isn’t helpful and the tiredness doesn’t leave you alone. The exhaustion in mental and not physical. When it’s one person, […]
How many times did you summon one of your employees for a talk and he arrived feeling nervous, troubled and anxious?
This phenomenon is derived from a common tendency where employees are summoned to a talk with their superior only when something is wrong.
Employees quickly adapt an impression – “If my boss calls me into his […]
The New-York Times conducted a survey that asked people to scale their greatest fears. The surprising results showed that the fear of death was rated only second whereas speech anxiety was rated as the number one fear. Jerry Seinfeld probably knew what he was talking about when he joked about that “when being in a […]
One short conversation with a potential investor, if successful in convincing him about the product and your capability, could make all your dreams come true. So, how do you approach a conversation like this?
You work on your start-up day and night. You have a winning team and do everything in your power to produce the […]
Christoph Waltz, the Oscar winning Austrian actor, who played the cruel Nazi Hans Landa in “Inglorious Bustards”, was asked in an interview how did he manage to reach the level of performance he showed in that film, where he “became” that character. His answer was that he did not have to do anything, because the […]
In August 2012, President Obama appeared on the news site Reddit, for a popular AMA (Ask Me Anything) feature. Reddit servers crashed under the weight of thousands of visitors, who were attracted by the high-profile guest. Reddit owners decided that they had no choice but to use cloud services from Amazon. The cloud solution has […]
