Employee fitness is just scratching the surface?
Too often employers worry about improving employees’ physically fitness, but ignore the many other components that drive overall well being.
Author: HankC
You don’t get what you pay for: extrinsic rewards create an unhealthy relationship with health
Though teachers and parents do it every day, there’s lots of evidence paying kids to learn/read/study is a waste of time. As Alfie Kohn, educational consultant, sums up the substantial body of research: Rewards are no more helpful at enhancing achievement than they are at fostering good values. At least …
Celebrating a virtual race with real beers, midway through the Triangle Tech Challenge
With two teams past the midpoint of the Triangle Tech Challenge, which covers 1,077 miles around North Carolina, two dozen racers got together last night for beers at Bull McCabes in downtown Durham, NC. To date, the 43 teams of four runners from Triangle tech companies have covered more than …
A jailbreak from my skull
This morning I woke up off-kilter — more than fuzzy-headed, less than full-on depressed, definitely sour. I shuffled around the dim house. Rather than focusing on the day ahead, I gnawed on yesterday. Itching a grievance. Trying to unforget something — what?! Leaning against a locked door. Even when I’ve …