[Originally posted on the Huffington Post.] This is the 13th in a series of 14 posts expanding on Salzman’s forecasts for 2013 in her annual trends report, a program of global communications group Havas Worldwide. This year’s book, What’s Next? What to Expect in 2013, was published on 12/12/12 and is available at 120MBooks.com. Salzman [...]
Jan 22, 2013 | Categories:Features, Health and Wellness, Technology, Trends | Tags: addiction, adrenal fatigue, always on, choice, chronic fatigue syndrome, citizens, compassion fatigue, conscience fatigue, decision fatigue, disaster, donor fatigue, ego fatigue, fatigue, green, green fatigue, hyperconnectivity, Internet, nonprofits, organic, stress, Technology, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting, What's Next?, willpower, words | Leave A Comment »
[Originally posted on the Huffington Post.] This is the eighth in a series of 14 posts expanding on Salzman’s forecasts for 2013 in her annual trends report, a program of global communications group Havas Worldwide. This year’s book, What’s Next? What to Expect in 2013, was published on 12/12/12 and is available at 120MBooks.com. Salzman [...]
Dec 28, 2012 | Categories:CSR, Features, Politics, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: Apple, Arab Spring, corporate social responsibility, CSR, debt, economic crisis, Google, mindfulness, Occupy, positive psychology, simplify, spending, stress, Tea Party, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting, What's Next? | Leave A Comment »
With our fast-paced lives and the current economic uncertainty, it’s no surprise that a new study shows that work-related stress is on the upswing. Living in this digital age and its expectation of constant reachability is partly to blame; a report from the University of Michigan said that most college students are physically unable to [...]
Nov 21, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Social Media, Technology, Trends, Youth | Tags: addictions, cellphone, digital addiction, digital age, digital devices, Magic Mind, stress, the economy, University of Michigan, Windows 8, work-related stress | Leave A Comment »
Lena Dunham’s quirky HBO series “Girls” is inspiring lots of talk about female friendships. (And is it any coincidence that science says a woman should have three good girlfriends for optimum stress relief?) This is true both for humans and animals, among which female friends are believed to anchor the basic unit of social life, [...]
Aug 10, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Trends | Tags: animal psychology, animal science, baboons, elephants, female friendship, frenemies, friendship, friendship trends, girlfriends, girls, Girls show, HBO Girls, health trends, humans, lions, primatologist, psychology, romance, science, stress | Leave A Comment »
Preparing to film the “Pittsburgh Welcomes One Young World” video, I decided I would get to work early one day last week. I arrived at our office building, Starbucks in hand, and got into the elevator. Little did I know that my floor required an elevator key and that you cannot get to that floor [...]
Jun 22, 2012 | Categories:One Young House, PR, Technology | Tags: Bill Phillips, breathe, elevator, interns, internship, iPod, Music, office, One Young World, stay positive, stress, stress reducers | Leave A Comment »
Stress has been named one of the leading health epidemics of this century, related to 70 percent of all visits to primary care physicians. Some psychologists liken stress to an emotional contagion, with each of us capable of spreading it to others. As most of us pay more attention to what leaders say and do, [...]
Apr 20, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Trends | Tags: bosses, employment trends, Finland, Hong Kong, malemployment, management trends, negativity, positivity, psychology, stress, stress in the workplace, workplace trends | Leave A Comment »
Believe it or not, there’s such a thing as healthy narcissism. Characterized by high self-esteem and a major desire for authority, it’s tolerable, sometimes even helpful. And then there’s unhealthy narcissism, the variety that gives a person an inhuman sense of entitlement and the willingness to exploit others. A new study has determined that unhealthy [...]
Feb 28, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Trends | Tags: anxiety, CEOs, cortisol, employees, health trends, Madonna, narcissism, narcissistic CEOs, Newt Gingrich, psychology, research, science, stress, yoga | Leave A Comment »
Originally posted on the Huffington Post. In my travels around the world, I’ve (over)heard a lot of ways for people to say they’ve reached a point of no return with their frustration, feeling so full of stress that they’re stirred from passive acceptance to action. Some cultures say it’s “the drop that makes the jar [...]
Sep 13, 2011 | Categories:Features, Insights, Politics, Social Media, Youth | Tags: #WakeUpCall, American Dream, anger, Arab Spring, Bob Geldof, brand, capitalism, change, consumer behavior, Crown Prince Haakon, Desmond Tutu, economy, Financial Times, frustration, global business, Howard Schultz, interfaith dialogue, Jamie Oliver, Joseph Stiglitz, leadership, Libya, Main Street, middle class, Middle East, Moammar Gadhafi, Mohamed El-Erian, One Young World, protest, riot, social justice, stress, trendspotter, trendspotting, unemployment, Vanity Fair, Wall Street, Warren Buffett, YouGovStone, Youth | Leave A Comment »
Originally posted on the Huffington Post. Remember that stress-envy thing we were all feeling in the late ’90s? You know, talking about how much we were working, how tired we were and how there were simply not enough hours in the day? We wore our stress with a badge of honor. And there was a [...]
Aug 30, 2011 | Categories:Features, Politics, Social Media, Trends, Youth | Tags: Barack Obama, British riots, David Cameron, devotion, disconnect, euro rscg, Facebook, Great Depressionr, indulgent, Internet, millennials, Nicolas Sarkozy, recession, smartphone, Social Media, stress, the economy, the Hamptons, vacation, work, work-life balance, workforce | Leave A Comment »
Originally posted on Fuel the Future. It’s hard not to feel stressed, and all the time. For starters, there’s global weirding and the many unknowns (and knowns!) of the economy. As PR people, life moves so fast because of how quickly media is changing; what exactly is news today, and how can we possibly keep [...]
Jun 29, 2011 | Categories:Features, Health and Wellness, PR, Social Media | Tags: Arthur W. Page Society, Brands, CareerCast, CNBC.com, communications, euro rscg, global warming, Julia Hood, millennials, New York, PR, public relations, scanxiety, social networks, stress, stress envy, stressful, the economy, work, work-life balance, workforce | Leave A Comment »
