Oct 10, 2017 | Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
It’s not unusual for luck to crop up in conversations when people seek to explain why they have prospered in an apparently unexpected way or they been the subject to some unpredicted misfortune. Some see themselves as lucky and other see the opposite. The questions...
Aug 9, 2017 | Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
The Dark Triad is a concept which is growing in importance in business and in society. In recent years researchers have variously suggested that these characteristics are linked to some form of success for people – often those who get to the top of the business or...
Aug 3, 2017 | Authors, Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness, Models of Mental Toughness
This is the fourth in the series of Mental Toughness role models. It can’t have escaped anyone’s attention that the Harry Potter stories, whilst” a rattling good read”, also convey some important subliminal and not so subliminal messages to the reader. And these...
Jul 17, 2017 | Doug Strycharczyk, Leadership, Mental Toughness
According to Bersin by Deloitte, “employee engagement (by 2016) has become the top issue on the minds of business leaders, directing us to an entirely new model of management”. Firstly, we need to understand what Employee Engagement is, why it is growing in importance...
Jun 30, 2017 | Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
I am indebted to Marzena Jankowska for drawing attention to an interesting study she came across in the April 2011 edition of New Scientist which contained an interesting feature on Mental toughness! This described the idea that most of us think that traumatic...