If managers knew how deeply their behaviors could affect brain function - whether they are piling up too much work on someone or yelling at them for "motivational purposes", they would quit doing it.

Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions.

Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.

The brain doesn't care about change. As the world's most sophisticated survival organ, the brain cares about loss.

To put it bluntly, research shows that we can’t multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously.

We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

The brain cannot multitask. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time…To put it bluntly, research shows that we can’t multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing information-rich inputs simultaneously…Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.