For most of us, within three degrees we are connected to more than 1,000 people — all of whom we can theoretically help make healthier, fitter and happier just by our contagious example. “If someone tells you that you can influence 1,000 people,” Fowler said, “it changes your way of seeing the world.” Visit the NY Times Article


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One of the intersting challenge of transformation was to move from a centralized decision making process to a decntralized structure where you placed the right man at the righ job and then got out of the way. 

One of the big challenges of this transformation was to ensure that the decentralized units collaborated and to reinforce that ethic throughout the organization. Read the strategy+business article

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An interesting article in strategy + business discusses the fact that the employee experiences workplace first & foremost as a social system. The brain equates the social needs of the employee, equal to the survival needs (unlike the Maslow's hierarchy). Social and physical pain produce similar pain responses. 

Neuroscience has proved that the response to threat is far more lang lasting /potent , than is the response to reward. And threats bring down the productivity dramatically. 

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