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Are Alphas Healthier Than Their Counterparts?
By: Dr. Gaby Cora
Alpha males and females have intrinsic characteristics—aside from being competitive, controlling, and more aggressive, they are also born healthier, more energetic, and more resilient.
Sure, they can get themselves in to more stressful situations by virtue of being more dominant and on the front lines at all times, which in turn make them more vulnerable to personal attacks. Alphas get to have more head-to-head physical, emotional, and intellectual confrontations or plain collisions. Their innate ability to endure frontal assaults may exceed others’ genetic capabilities to sustain stress itself.
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Balance Work in Life with LOVE
The recession has now grown its spreading roots. Those who didn’t think it was going to hit them have sadly come to terms: the recession is here to stay. Thousands of people have been laid off and thousands wonder if their current job will still exist. Either way, all of us have a family member, a friend or a client in this situation. Listen to this posting as a podcast/MP3: Balance Work in Life with LOVEWhile many have felt the pressure of doing more with less at work for months or years, people are feeling even more stretched to the max. Most of us wonder how long we will be able to sustain such intense pressure. Those who have lost their job are networking, sending résumés and interviewing for a new job. Those who have had their salaries cut down are in search of another part-time job to increase their revenue. And the rest are holding on to several jobs to make ends meet. Everyone has been affected: employees holding on to a job, entrepreneurs striving to survive and investors counting their losses in the millions.
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Leading under Pressure – in the Media
It was with great sadness that we received the news of the untimely and sudden death of the great political journalist Tim Russert today. While watching Larry King’s tribute and poignant question regarding the challenging lifestyle of media experts, Ted Koppel, managing editor of the Discovery Channel, couldn’t but comment how Russert would always fill in for everyone else and also said “he worked too hard.” Interestingly, when Wolf Blitzer, CNN anchor, was asked if he would consider changing his lifestyle in any way, he smiled with sarcasm at the idea saying that, although others may feel he should, he wouldn’t, particularly as he found his job quite exhilarating.
