Business Genius

UP! YOUR STRESS MANAGEMENT SKILLS

The fourth Block and Limitation to Business Genius is ineffective stress management.

This doesn’t mean ineffective in an unkind way. Far from it. It simply means that effective stress management is more vital than it’s ever been, and the reason for this can be summed up in one word:

Spillage

Take air traffic control, for example.

Years ago I met someone who worked for air traffic control, which I’d always assumed to be an amazingly stressful profession.

‘It isn’t really,’ I was told, much to my surprise. ‘When you’re at work, stress levels frequently run high (because you’re helping to avoid collisions and land planes safely), but the moment you’ve left work, the stress stops. It’s not your problem any more, ...