I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

Positive work environments outperform negative work environments.

Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates its own safe space, one in which she can confront threats, fears, and dangers, but always come through whole. Play offers a child a natural way to manage feared separations or abandonment, rendering them instead opportunities for mastery and self-discovery.

IQ and technical skills are important, but emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership.

Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?

Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.