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Noting the toxic relationships in many workplaces Fast Company found research suggesting that workers who think their bosses are unfair may face significantly greater risk of heart disease.

The Board room lights were dimmed, and the Meeting Inventory Spreadsheet was projected up on to the screen, larger than life. It was Bradley J. Moore's executive team meeting about meetings.

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Brad Moore confesses: "Sometimes it all just catches up to me, too. The over-commitment, the pressures and demands coming from every side, and I just want a break. I don’t want to keep leading and being nice and thinking the best of everyone and being patient." Sound familiar?

Bradley J. Moore wonders about the possibility that God the Worker might maybe, conceivably, by any chance, possibly know as much or more than we do about thebusiness.

Andrea Emerson got an interesting (and useful) bit of insight from a seasoned marketer and business strategist: "On a scale of 0 to 10, let's say you were born a 5 in one talent area. You work hard at it, and over time, you climb up to a 7. The problem is that the world only pays for a 10." Sound familiar?

Lots of transitions going on these days... How you join a new team? Do you project yourself as already having all the answers? Or do you let your new team know that your experience, to be successful, has to combine with their valuable knowledge in a cooperative way? And how do you communicate your perspective on this?

Our colleague Jim Hancock takes a look at the meeting room and mobile devices, and asks the question "are they a distraction?, or are they just the latest tools to improve productivity?"

Published in Work and Stress, and reported in Psychology Today a study shows the adverse impact of a bad boss on employee well being. Dan Wooldridge explains four types of bad bosses.