Cognitive Factoids! Theory Questioned that One Lazy Worker Can Ruin The Team

A research project by the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales claims one lazy member can ruin a team. 158 students in 33 teams took part in their study. What differed in this research to previous studies was the degree to which it looked at the individual personalities and their contribution to overall outcomes. It was clear to them that one lazy member was enough to drag down the team's performance. However the Deputy Director of Coaching Psychology at the University of Sydney expressed caution. Dr Michael Cavanagh warned that while individuals could affect a team like this, it is the nature of the relationships between the team members that will affect the outcome. "Relying on any one factor to fully explain these dynamics is a dangerous game!" He said.

Gerry Neale Cognitive Author of "Squaring Circles"
http://www.squaringcircles.co.uk  for more information on the novel and the Author
Gerry Neale's Blog on Squaring Circles
Available from www.amazon.co.uk

What About This!

 

The Brains of People Living In The Country Are Different To Those In Towns!

Country people are less stressed. Those born in towns seem more susceptible to stress and moods. Research has revealed that the brains of country people work differently to those in towns. Different parts of their brains cope with stress. Anxiety disorders were found to be far more prevalent in towns and cities. This was deduced from comparative brain scans of city and rural dwellers.

This information found by a mental health institute in Montreal Canada prompts some interesting lines of further research on town planning and housing layout.

Squaring Circles: What Does It Mean Emotionally?

 We can feel emotionally disturbed to such an extent that we cannot find any sense of stability at all, This can be hopelessly disorientating, and yet can have far more to do with strategies we put in place as children, which are no longer suited to the trials and tribulations of adult life. Stuck in this state, we seem to go round and round unable to square our feelings with our predicament and so unable to come to terms with it. Only by investigating those childhood patterns can we hope to live more happily, with our emotions and intellect operating in concert, side by side. 

"Squaring Circles." A Novel By Gerry Neale available www.amazon.co.uk  
ISBN 9780956868824 
More information on the Book and the Author go to www.squaring circles.co.uk

Help Is Coming To Enable Us To See Better How We Can Change Our Emotional Responses

There should be an announcement on this blog in the week of the 20th June 2011 which should lead to beneficial reading!

PLEASE PLEASE WRITE IT ALL DOWN

Make notes, keep a notebook or make a sheet per day!

Have a great idea – then make a note!

 

Decide to do something, then make it a To-Do

for your day!

 

Your internal commitments in thought
will be hugely strengthened

by writing it down!

TRY IT!

TRY THIS SIMPLE THING!

DO A GOOD DEED!

Hardly an hour passes, let alone

a day, before the chance presents itself to help

someone we do not know or to spurn that chance.

It could be in the street.

It could be when we are driving and

letting someone in ahead of us, or

it could be by making sure they cannot.

It could be holding a door for them, or

by letting it shut in the face. Or

it could be by carrying a bag

up or down some stairs for them, or by simply ignoring them.

We share the same world in our time,
when it is their time too.

It costs nothing to make it a better time.

Try it, and I swear you will make the weirdest discovery!

In totally unrelated situations, you will find other people

increasingly doing it for you.

Most important, feel the emotional power within you for
having treated Life as an interconnected endeavour with others,
even if only for a few moments in your day!

HAVE FAITH!

IF YOU HAVE FAITH, PRAY,

BUT IF YOU DON’T, 

THEN APPEAL TO

THE HIGHER ORDER OF THE UNIVERSE

This can be a sensitive issue but I believe
it should not be.

If you have a Faith,

however dimmed by lack of practice,

I would encourage you to awaken it.

In so doing you awaken your connection with greater powers than your own.

Most Faiths have a peaceful
and spiritual emphasis which serves to connect us

with “our neighbour.”

If you do not have Faith,

then ponder on the infinite scale and order of the universe,

on its power to put our own issues in perspective.

But reflect too on how

when we grasp a good intent and we promote it,

extraordinarily and coincidentally,

helpful things happen

towards achieving that good intent!