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Article: Anxiety's positive face
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- Washington Jewish Week
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- April 10, 2008
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Anxiety's positive face
'Just enough' can lead to growth, success
Book Review
In business and in life, don't fear change and its concomitant anxiety - embrace them.
That's the message of Robert Rosen's book Just Enough Anxiety: The Hidden Driver of Business Success (Portfolio, 2008).
"The book is an argument to reframe our understanding of anxiety in the context of a changing world," says the Arlington resident. Instead of looking at that emotion as a negative, we need to perceive it as "the energy of life... the catalyst for learning, growing and solving problems."
A psychologist and business consultant, Rosen writes that successful leadership "is all about creating the right level of ...