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- 06 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Level-Six Leader?
"transactional" leaders. Level One: Sociopath At the base of the model is the person who literally serves no one: the Sociopath. The Sociopath, afflicted with what the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders... View Details
Keywords: by Mitch Maidique
- 11 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas
advertisers. They were especially likely to spend in areas where trials are decided by juries, rather than bench trials (i.e., decided by judges), where advertising increases were statistically zero. “You are not buying billboards to... View Details
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
“overfitting” a statistical model, ensuring the model hits every historical data point and thus making it overly specific and lacking room for future variables. Another problem can develop with miscalibration, failing to consider whether... View Details
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
the monetary incentives increased it by 13 percent. Combining the two interventions boosted the total by a small but statistically insignificant amount over the structured meetings alone. After the study period ended, however, something... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
statistics about how strategy formulation is so often disconnected from strategy execution. What is an office of strategy management, and when and why is it needed? What are its typical activities? How it is distinct from a strategic... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
film, Moneyball, at least in part a glorification of the triumph of statistics and probabilities over intuition and managerial judgment in professional baseball? Two recent books add to the genre of advice on decision-making. One advises... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)
penalty,” says Gallani, “but who was expecting to.” Ultimately, such tournament-style motivation schemes may be a zero-sum game, Gallani and Cai found, with the increased productivity of the winners and decreased productivity of the losers canceling each other out to... View Details
- 21 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style
First, the researchers looked at the words that CEOs chose, using statistical inference to eventually generate 100 topics as diverse as marketing, corporate boards, and personal family history. Each CEO was scored based on their tendency... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Jul 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?
had risen to the highest rate in nine years. Economists assure us that productivity (the ratio of product and service outputs to labor and capital inputs) improvements are good for all of us, whether we are employed (and thus factored into the statistic) or not (which... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World
forecasting, strategic planning, and statistical decision making have not prepared them for this amount of flux in the environment. In short, these rapid-fire changes are putting extreme pressure on business leaders to lead in ways not... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 21 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?
help with the data analysis. Thus began the long saga of extracting statistics on inspections and sorting out which were randomly assigned, which followed accidents, and which followed complaints. In addition, Toffel and Levine... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Nov 2019
- What Do You Think?
Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?
restrict an employee’s upward mobility and reduce wage and benefits competition among employers. According to statistics cited by the US Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 12 percent of workers earning less than... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
into a forest of complexity where nearly anyone can become lost. Statistics can be powerful weapons, used not to clarify but to bewilder. "You are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. Just look at this [twenty-two-page]... View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
short of their bonus targets. When they and their companies all react in the same, predictable way—taking big baths by maximizing the bad news—the cumulative effect is to exaggerate the economic weakness, perhaps deepening or extending the recession. Macroeconomic... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
risks being caused by high-profile events such as the attacks of 9/11. Based on statistical probabilities, risk managers view 9/11 as an "outlier" or exceptional event; but even so, it has spurred a host of defensive reactions.... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 15 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer
recovering—declined even more at 24 percent. Inside the studies Researchers accessed detailed injury data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics for almost 2.2 million establishments from 1995 to 2016. They also struck data sharing... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
enforcement on air pollution controls. In California, OpenCounter streamlined registration for small businesses and provided zoning clearances in a fraction of the usual time. In New York, Mark43 is developing software to analyze crime View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
statistical trading system; he handled administration and sales. Hedging was an important feature of the fund, since trading in commodities requires frequent short selling of commodities contracts. Registering the fund with the Securities... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
analysis and deep probing, individuals tend to leap prematurely to unfounded conclusions and misunderstand complicated problems. Some understanding of system dynamics, the ability to see patterns, statistical process controls, and group... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 08 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles
apply, firms can now hop on a platform and pick out talent they think would be an especially good fit for their needs. When Koning and his colleagues set out to learn how many workers were being recruited versus applying for jobs directly, View Details