The Working Week 32: Myra White
This week, Wayne is joined by Dr Myra White, who teaches organizational behavior and managing workplace performance at Harvard University as well as being a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School.
Myra is the author of Follow the Yellow Brick Road: A Harvard Psychologist’s Guide to Becoming a Superstar, a book based on her research into how over 60 well-known people became superstars.
She is also CEO of Work Intelligence, Inc, which uses the latest scientific knowledge of human behavior to help businesses maximize employee and organizational performance and Behavior Scientific, a boutique firm dedicated to helping companies identify, hire and develop superstars.
Myra and Wayne explore the link between stress and burnout, and our growing reliance – or should we say “addiction” - on computers and communications technology.
Why do many of us send emails when a phone call or face-to-face conversation (remember those?) would do the job far better? Why have such socialable animals come to develop such an obsession with such anti-social tools? And what is this addiction is doing to the way we all react in the workplace?
