Intelligence Is Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed

". . .instead of exclusively focusing on your conventional intelligence quotient, you should make an investment in strengthening your EQ (Emotional Intelligence), MQ (Moral Intelligence), and BQ (Body Intelligence). These concepts may be elusive and difficult to measure, but their significance is far greater than IQ."

10 Ways to Motivate Anyone

". . .there is no cookie-cutter approach to motivating your people. What inspires one person may leave the next cold. When you understand an employee’s thinking and behavioral preferences, you’ll be able to maximize his or her enthusiasm. This will help you get your workforce aligned and moving in the same direction, and you’ll see incredible returns."

Office Politics a Necessary Evil, Survey Finds

"In a study from staffing firm Robert Half International, nearly 60 percent of workers said involvement in office politics is at least somewhat necessary to get ahead."

CFOs: Humor a Key Part of Workplace 'Fit'

"A sense of humor is important for fitting into a company's corporate culture and may be key to getting -- or staying -- employed, a U.S. survey says. The survey . . . was based on interviews with more than 1,400 chief financial officers . . ."

Meetings Can Make You, Uh, Stupid

"To look at how meetings might affect our ability to think, the researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to watch people’s brains as they worked in a group setting, according to the new report published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B."

Study: Powerful People Tend to Overestimate Height

"The study, published in Psychological Science, looked at whether the psychological perception of power may cause people to feel taller than they truly are."

Would You Kill One Person to Save Five? New Research on a Classic Debate

"This dilemma is a famous philosophical conundrum that was originally called the 'trolley problem.' Now a team from Michigan State University's psychology department has used virtual-reality technology to test how we respond psychologically and physiologically when faced with this problem."

At Best Places to Work, Trust, Pride and Camaraderie Overshadow Pay

"The Great Place to Work Institute examines elements that make for a standout workplace and has released its first-ever list of multinational companies most successful at keeping their employees happy."

Survey: Birth Order Affects Job, Salary

". . .it turns out that first-born kids are the most likely to earn six figure salaries and hold a top executive position among workers with siblings, according to findings from jobs website CareerBuilder.com. Meanwhile, middle kids are the most likely to report holding an entry-level spot and earning less than $35,000, while siblings born last are the most likely to work in middle management."

Peer Pressure is Brain Hardwired

"A part of the brain associated with rewards showed higher activity when a person wins among peers, compared to winning alone, U.S. researchers say."

Male Bosses Still Preferred over Female Ones

"Almost half of U.S. workers say they don't care if they have male or a female boss, a Gallup poll suggests. While 32 percent of those polled said they would prefer to work for a male and 22 percent said they preferred to work for a female, the edge for a male boss is the smallest it has been since Gallup began asking the question in 1953."

Nice Guys Earn Less, Study Finds

"There are upsides to being nice in the office, such as being better liked by co-workers, the authors say, pointing to a raft of earlier studies. But the bottom line, according to four studies they conducted, is that 'agreeableness is negatively related to income and earnings.""

Study: Your Hostile Workplace May Be Killing You

"The 20-year study, by researchers at Tel Aviv University, sought to examine the relationship between the workplace and a person's risk of death . . . People who reported having little or no social support from their co-workers were 2.4 times more likely to die during the course of the study than those who said they had close, supportive bonds with their workmates."

Women Take Different Risks Than Men

"Conventional wisdom holds that women take fewer risks than men but U.S. researchers say women take different kinds of risks than men, such as social risks."

Incivility a Growing Problem at Work, Psychologists Say

"'Workplace incivility' is on the rise, researchers said Sunday at the American Psychological Association annual meeting."

Study: Changes Of 1960s Behind Church's Abuse Crisis

"Why did the Roman Catholic Church experience a sexual abuse crisis? There are no simple answers, according to a five-year study by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice that was released on Wednesday. But the reasons suggested in the report are unlikely to satisfy critics of the church."

Minorities Lose Ground in Big Corporate Boardrooms

"The 2010 Alliance for Board Diversity Census, released this week, found that as of last year white men made up 72.9 percent of board members at the nation's 100 largest companies, up from 71.2 percent in 2004, when the board last analyzed the data."

Slideshow: The 25 Most Influential Black American Leaders of All Time

"This slideshow provides the Grio's 2011 African-American Leadership Survey selections of most influential black American leaders of all time."

Upper-Class People Less Adept at Reading Other People's Emotions

"Upper-class people are less adept at reading other people's emotions than their lower-class counterparts, according to a new study published in the journal Psychological Science."

Are Women Less Competitive than Men? Explaining the Gender Gap

"For the past four decades, ever since women began vying with men in the workforce on a large-scale, economists have wondered when gender differences in pay and achievement would shrink. In recent years the question has shifted from when to why not already. . ."