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Amanda Palmer - the art of asking
Amanda Palmer - the art of asking
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Monday, March 25, 2013
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boost power through body language
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Want to Lean In? Try a Power Pose
For women who may be "leaning out," Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg's urging to "lean in" requires some behavioral changes and deviations from how many women are expected to or accustomed to behaving. Fortunately, we have the power to do this for ourselves, through tiny tweaks that actually reconfigure our brains in ways that may make us more assertive, confident, relaxed, risk tolerant, and fearless.
Recent experimental psychology from Dana Carney, Pranjal Mehta, Robert Josephs, Jennifer Lerner, Gary Sherman, and our lab at Harvard suggests that the best leaders — both male and female — seem to have relatively high testosterone, which is linked to decreased fear and increased tolerance for risk and desire to compete, and low cortisol, which is linked to decreased anxiety. Effective leadership is associated with hormone levels, and with this hormone profile, leaders are confident and willing to take risks, but not overly threatened or reactive to stressors. Who wouldn't want to work for this kind of leader?
This is not an argument for masculinizing leadership; it is an argument for providing people with the tools that will allow them to bring their strongest, most resilient and confident selves to stressful or uncomfortable situations, like being the only woman in the board room, pitching a new idea, or negotiating for a raise or promotion — the tasks that Sandberg refers to as "sitting at the table" and "speaking your truth."
It turns out these two hormones, testosterone and cortisol, are very touchy, sensitive to social and physical cues and fluctuating a great deal over the course of a single day. As Sandberg mentioned in her book, our research shows that people can change their own hormone levels and behaviors, by "faking it" — by "power posing," or adopting expansive, open nonverbal postures that are strongly associated with power and dominance across the animal kingdom (imagine standing with hands on hips and feet spread, like Wonder Woman). By holding these postures for just two minutes before entering a high-stress situation, people (both men and women) can increase their testosterone by about 20% and decrease their cortisol by about 25% (Want to do the opposite to your hormones? Adopt a low-power pose — wrap your arms around your torso, cross your ankles, lower your chin). Power posing also increases people's tolerance for risk and pain, and their ability to think abstractly. This isn't about what your body language is communicating to others; it's about what your body language is communicating to you: your body language is changing your mind, which changes your behavior, which changes your outcomes.
This simple life hack — standing in a bathroom stall like Wonder Woman before a stressful meeting — has the potential to substantially improve women's ability to lean in - to take risks, face fears and barriers, and to endure the stressors inherent to the kinds of changes Sandberg recommends.
AMY J.C. CUDDY
Amy J.C. Cuddy is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
Work Smarter with Evernote in 2013 by Alexandra Samuel | 1:40 PM December 18, 2012
Look back on 2012 and what do you remember? Probably the biggest, and most recent events. Sure, you remember the details of your meetings last week...and the major accomplishments in your third quarter report...and hey, wasn't that a great restaurant you went to during your August vacation. But what was the name of that restaurant? And what was that book you read while you were on vacation — the one that had inspired you with a new idea for work, if only you could remember it? What happened to that draft memo you started before you went on vacation? And what on earth did you do with the entire month of February?
2012 can be the last year you forget if you make 2013 the year you commit to using a digital notebook like Evernote. Evernote, and others like it, makes it easy for you to capture every conversation, idea, note, draft, business card, white board, and scrap of paper so that you can stop wracking your brain and start searching for, and finding, the information you need, when you need it. Better still, Evernote can help you stay focused on your top priorities by keeping your work organized, and make your work more influential by helping you share it with the colleagues who need it, too. My short ebook, Work Smarter with Evernote, which Harvard Business Review Press released today, can show you how.
What would it mean to work smarter with Evernote in 2013? Here's a month-by-month game plan that just scratches the surface of how such a tool can help you:
January: Focus on your top goals for the year by setting up an Evernote notebook for each of your major projects or areas of responsibility. Move them to the top of your Evernote sidebar where you will see and think about them every day.
February: Create a notebook that gathers up any news clippings or blog posts that reflect your company's recent achievements, along with performance reviews and email kudos. It's your happy space!
March: If you're still having trouble letting go of that paper notebook, don't give up on the benefits of having everything searchable and in one place. Use your smartphone to snap photos of your handwritten notes, and add those photos to Evernote. Evernote's optical character recognition will make them searchable.
April: File your taxes in record time by saving all your online receipts to a single Evernote notebook. You'll find that notebook useful when it's time to file expense claims, too.
May: Going to a big conference or trade show? Save a PDF of the conference program to Evernote so you'll have it handy, or use the Evernote web clipper (install it in your web browser) to clip descriptions of the sessions you'd like to attend. Snap photos of the business cards you collect and store them in a notebook, take notes during conference sessions on your tablet. Tag it all with the name of the conference for easy reference.
June: Mid-year review time. Write a quick recap of your top achievements this quarter by scanning through your notebooks and tagging "deliverables" or "highlights" and then having them ready to go with your manager.
July: Make the most of the summer slow-down by queuing up some blog posts or finally drafting that white paper. If you've set up an Evernote notebook called "ideas," you'll have lots of inspiration stored up to get you started.
August: Recharge with a vacation that makes the most of every minute. Compile a personal guide book for your travel destination by clipping restaurant reviews, suggested itineraries, maps and other resources to a vacation notebook. On your smartphone or tablet, set it to be an offline notebook so it's accessible even when you have no signal.
September: Once the school year starts, you're back to the joys of juggling work with family logistics. Create an Evernote notebook named for each of your kids, and use it to store school announcements, report cards and notes on meetings with teachers or doctors. You can get birthday party invitations or school messages directly to Evernote by forwarding them to your unique Evernote email address.
October: Starting a new project? Set up a new notebook with the name of your client and use it to save all your meeting notes, client and team contact info, document outlines and web clippings of relevant background info. Share the notebook with the rest of the project team so you can collaborate on your research process and share your work in progress.
November: Give thanks to your direct reports with a personal email highlighting each of their major achievements. It's easy to get specific when you have a notebook for each person on your team, which you use to file notes on your conversations, summaries of their performance reviews, and copies of their major deliverables.
December: You're ready when the word goes out that there's some leftover budget. Your Evernote wishlist notebook is full of project ideas in need of funding, and your potential hires notebook has clippings from the LinkedIn profiles of everyone you'd make a FTE if only you had the money to grab them.
How do you want to use Evernote to work smarter in 2013? Let us know in the comment thread below, or by tweeting your ideas with the hashtag #WSWE. We'll share our favorites in a future blog post.
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