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Vendaval -> Your brain at work (11/6/2009 4:42:00 AM)
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I am still trying to figure out what "the right level of stress" is and whether the entire concept is an oxymoron.
The points about social threats disrupting a person's ability to focus on their job are spot on.
"Business Books: The human brain in the workplace"
By Martin Langfield
Thu Nov 5, 2009 2:10pm, EST
"Rock, the founder of a company that applies the insights of brain science to leadership coaching, lists five areas in which our brain's threat mechanisms are easily triggered at work: status, certainty, autonomy, relatedness and fairness.
When we feel threatened in any of these spheres -- a superior displays power over us, rumors circulate about the future of our job, our work is micro-managed, we are excluded from colleagues' conversations, or our work is unjustly overlooked -- our brains focus our attention on the threat.
In doing so, the brain diverts scarce resources away from the prefrontal cortex (PFC), the area we use to set goals, make plans, control impulses, solve problems, visualize the unknown and think creatively -- in short, the part of our brain we use to do good work."
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousivMolt/idUSTRE5A42K220091105
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