Have you ever looked around the room at a networking luncheon and wondered, “Why on earth do we all need to be here?” It turns out that science has an answer to that. Scientists from the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, from the Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and from [...]

A few days ago, I was talking with a coach friend of mine about happiness. There is, after all, so much to be unhappy about, and there are so many unsolicited resources to produce the state, that the effort to avoid it requires a real concentration of will and direction of mind. Happiness, on the [...]