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Are You Taking up Your Full Space?

It used to be a truism of body language studies that alpha males asserted their status by taking up more space through a number of gestural displays, such as spreading their legs out to either side while sitting, putting their hands behind their head and pushing their elbows out, even slouching in a chair to ...

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Should You Smile for the Camera? Be Careful — It May Age You!

We humans smile a great deal.  We smile when we’re happy; we smile when we’re sad, to disguise the feeling from others or perhaps to try to cheer ourselves up.  We smile when we’re angry for similar reasons of disguise, and we smile sometimes, especially in America, to show off our expensive teeth. We smile ...

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Are You Anxious? What Are the Uses of Anxiety, if Any?

I am an anxious person.  I like things to go well, especially social situations, and I put energy into trying to keep everyone around me comfortable.  When that doesn’t work, I get anxious.  Heck, I get anxious just thinking about all that.  I’m a pro, like many of you I know, at imagining all the ...

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Robbie Quinn’s Street Unicorns Are Here!

Telling visual stories is what photographers do, and no one more vividly than Robbie Quinn, a New York City photographer who is publishing a book, Street Unicorns, this week that features pictures of some of the amazing street fashion moments Robbie has witnessed in New York and other cities.  Robbie has a knack for getting ...

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David Meerman Scott Talks About the 8th Edition of The New Rules of Marketing and PR

David Meerman Scott is a speaker, an author, and a thought leader extraordinaire in the modern world of marketing with its influencers, newsjacking (a word David invented) and digital campaigns.  His book, The New Rules of Marketing and PR, has been a perennial bestselling since its debut in 2007, and this week comes out in ...

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E22 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick Morgan talks to communications advisor Scott Monty

Scott Monty is a leadership and communications advisor, public speaker, and storytelling. You can find him at scottmonty.com.

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How Long Do Emotions Last?

Every now and then I run across a neuroscientific study that makes me think in a new way, because it tries a fresh angle or studies something no one has studied before.  A study from 2014 I just encountered accomplishes exactly that, thanks to a wonderful blog anyone interested in brain research should check out ...

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How do you react to change?

The only people who crave change are wet babies.  I first heard that maxim from my grandmother, and it has remained a favorite of mine ever since.  At first, I heard it as a way to heap opprobrium on my elders, including grandma herself, who refused to see how my generation was the one sent ...

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Do you know how to be empathetic?

Listening to my good friend and fellow speaker Martin G. Moore deliver a splendid speech on leadership recently, I was struck by a comment he made about empathy.  “No amount of empathy is too much,” he said, adding that a leader needs to understand her people as deeply as possible.  It’s an important concept in ...

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E21 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick Morgan chats to expert in organizational resilience Adam Markel

Adam Markel is a Speaker, author, trainer and expert in organizational resilience – and we sure need that! His latest book is Change Proof: Leveraging the power of uncertainty to build long-term resilience! The website is Changeproof.com, to find the book and to get a slice of Adam. Free assessment at resiliencerank.com. ...

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