After reading the title of this post, some readers may be asking “Stress can be positive? How could anxiety ever be ‘optimal?'" Modern society has trained us to think that we should rarely, if ever, ...

When it comes to stress, a healthy medium is key, and leaders can take steps to help employees find the right balance. Sometimes a little healthy pressure can go a long way. We’ve all felt it—the ...

"A little anxiety from time to time can be beneficial to task performance…[as] illustrated by the Yerkes-Dodson law, which states…performance is improved by anxiety until an optimum level of arousal ...