Why 1/3 of Your Team May Be Out to Get You! My experience leading teams has been (select one): An uplifting, collaborative exploration of what’s possible? A soul-crushing, lonely exercise in futility? Unfortunately, your chances of selecting either of these answers is about 50/50. A friend of mine has recently taken the reins of […]
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The math of having it all… —————————- Recipe for Organizational Wealth Ingredients: Carefully mix the following: A 23,000 line spreadsheet documenting the savings earned from instituting a ban on business travel, eliminating pay raises and implementing a hiring freeze An unnecessarily long, unnecessarily complex strategic plan A PowerPoint deck with enough slides to ensure the owner
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Abuse me? What? Why did I cough up $125.00 for The Bass Handbook of Leadership? My graduate professors insisted the book was the last word… now I have a 10-pound, 1,500-page book that may be incomplete. People talk about leadership every day. They throw the word out there and accept it from others as if
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The holiday party season is in full gear and that means lots of opportunities to meet new people, have some fun and expand your network. For those of us that revel in the reveling, it’s time to get out your ‘formal lampshade’, which, unlike those ‘skinny jeans’ you still have in your closet, should still
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Political correctness sometimes gets a bad rap by people who think that it is just a way to censor their right to free speech; however, Cornell University has proven that it can actually increase the creativity of work teams that are comprised of both men and woman. This is challenging the idea that in order
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Have you ever wondered why you choose the friends you choose, like the people you like, marry the people you marry? Instinctively, we’d probably answer by thinking about all the good things we see in those we hold closest – personality, values, interests but what about the bad stuff? Can negative feelings or experiences bond
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Studies have shown that personality plays an important part in exchanging knowledge. Adam Grant at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, created a personality measure to determine people’s natural tendency toward interpersonal knowledge exchange. He found that most people can be classified into one of three groups: givers, matchers and takers:Givers: not only
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A study in the journal Psychology and Aging has shown substantial differences in brain function throughout the day for older adults. A group of younger adults (aged 19-30) and a group of older adults (aged 60-82) participated in a series of memory tests with built in distractions. During the test, each participant’s brain was scanned
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New research out of China suggests that if people know what the average opinion on a given subject is, they will change their personal opinion to be closer to the average opinion They will do this even if there is no social pressure to hold an opinion similar to the average opinion Interestingly, this effect
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1. Research from Case Western Reserve University suggests a linkage between entitled attitudes—how much individuals think they deserve “special treatment”—and sexism 2. Entitled men are more likely to endorse hostile views of women 3. More surprisingly, entitled women are more likely to endorse views of women as frail and needing extra care Source: Joshua B.
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