A brother and sister were negotiating Christmas presents with their parents. The boy asked for five dollars per day for the 12-day holiday, prompting nods of approval. The girl asked for just 50 cents ...

Recently, I’ve started asking new employees to consider the following question: What can only you do, given your unique gifts, history, knowledge, personality, and passion, to contribute to our team ...

It’s easy to dwell on the difficulty and pain of recovery from an eating disorder. But it’s important to attend to the beauty of it too. One of the forms of beauty involved in restoring yourself to ...

When it comes to enhancing performance, the age-old debate often revolves around whether it is more effective to employ positive feedback to acknowledge achievements or to provide constructive ...

Healthcare’s burnout crisis is having a disastrous effect on staffing levels. The annual turnover rate for staff nurses is 22.5%, which costs healthcare organizations $8.55 million annually. Feedtrail ...

Positive might make it sound like a good thing, but positive feedback loops in the markets cause death spirals. In the crisis of 2008 and the flash crash of 2010, high frequency trading was blamed as ...

Engineers use feedback loops — typically negative feedback is more useful, but positive feedback is needed for oscillators. Negative feedback in an amplifier circuit, which has a negative loop gain, ...

Bill Gates said, "We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.” Great leaders know positive feedback is essential to boost employee morale, productivity and engagement. So much ...