Hello Fellow Productivity Enthusiasts!

Happy New Year! Today on the blog, we're talking about The Battle Trance Concept: Enforcing Collective Identity in Your Workplace Team. Recently, I ran across the battle trance concept: an idea well known in the military environment where I grew up, but only recently defined in psychology. Essentially, it involves the subsuming of one's individual identity into the collective identity of a group. The group acts almost as a single organism that feels no fear or pain, where individuals willingly sacrifice for others, fighting for something "bigger and more important than their own life." Members can be conditioned to go into battle trance instantly, or via ritualistic activities. Continue reading here >> 

On Friday’s Productivity Pro Podcast, I talked about Reducing Your Reading Pile.

This week on LinkedIn: The Shadow Knows: Tapping Job Shadowing to Cover Critical Tasks.

Thank you for joining me, and have a productive day!

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