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RBoyatzis

  1. Fantastic new book (Robert Hall) This Land of Strangers. If you read one book this decade, make it this amzing book about our relationships!
  2. If you are interested in team development, check out my blog at HBR: blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/04/the…
  3. "Ruhlman's Twenty" book is a gift to those who seek healthier and quick meals. The photos are the best guide to cooking I have ever read.
  4. If you love country music or liked any of his songs on the first two CDs, Mark's latest is amazing. Check it out www.MarkScottMusic.com!
  5. For a summary of our fMRI research on "Coaching with Compassion", check out our You Tube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFjgAxmRaYo
  6. Being positive with others feels better, but if it can feel phony. What is the best balance between being positive and critical with others?
  7. Social contagion affects behavioral change. We compare ourselves to others and want to belong or fit in, so we mimic the behavior of others.
  8. People catch our feelings through emotional contangion. Neurologically, this happens positively oir negatively in milliseconds!
  9. Coaching to the NEA makes people defensive and they close themselves to new ideas, emotions and others.
  10. Coaching to the PEA stimulates cognitive, perceptual, and emotional openness and better performance.
  11. Coachng for compliance is coaching to the NEA- coaching others to comply with your wishes for them. It puts people on the defensive.
  12. Coaching with compassion is coaching to the Positive Emotional Attractor-- coaching to a person's dreams, values, hopes and aspirations.
  13. Our recent fMRI study shouwed that even 30 minutes of PEA coaching stimulated over 77 regions of the brain conducive to positive change.
  14. Coaching, advising, or helping a person toward their Positive Emotional Attractor stimulates openness to sustained, desired change.
  15. Inspiring others motivates change-- we know this from our behavioral and fMRI studies of coaching and change.
  16. Correction, it is in the Wall Street Journal this morning.
  17. Michael Ruhlman'sfantastic cookbook Ratio made the top 5 cookbooks of all time in New York Times today.
  18. A breeze becomes a wind with more force, as annoyance becomes anger, but a smile becomes a laugh with no additional force.
  19. There is more to see, if you look at less.
  20. Seeing & smelling that brings a feeling of joy or a smile to our face arouses healthy neuro-endocrine systems- a role of good cooking!