Fight or flight

The animalistic reactions of fight or flight can play a major role in success or failure for leaders, both within their businesses and their personal lives, according to a recent Fast Company article.

Leadership Resource columnist Mark Goulston, M.D. and author of Get Out of Your Own Way at Work...and Help Others Do the Same, observes that as long as people avoid dealing head on with distress relief and, instead, prevent such behaviour by using intellectual efforts, their plans to better themselves and their company will be short lived.

The article describes 10 things that smart leaders can do to help themselves cope, but which can mess up their companies, careers and lives.