JAMES ALLEN

Socially responsible companies tend to attract employees who are eager to make a difference in the world—in addition to simply collecting a paycheck.

With large companies, there is strength in numbers, where collective employee efforts can achieve substantial results, whi...

• Don’t praise ability or intelligence: That promotes a fixed mindset. Compliment effort, process and choices.
• Don’t ignore outcome, tie it to effort: You can be happy about success, but attribute it to effort.
• Respond positively to failure: Failure isn’t b...

It reveals a great deal about how memory works. Zeigarnik suggested that failing to complete a task creates underlying cognitive tension. This results in greater mental effort and rehearsal in order to keep the task at the forefront of awareness. Once completed, the mind is then able to le...