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- 11 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive
which means that you try to start a dialogue with the person to understand them instead of trying to guess their feelings. Frei: Or, in our language, “center” on them. Bulletin: Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes might be a natural... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint
- 30 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators
into play, and people are unable to see the ethical implications of their actions because their desire to win gets in the way. The end result is deception. In business, with dollars at stake, many people will interpret situations in ways that View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
of casual hallway and cafeteria conversations where the genesis of a lot of great ideas take place.” Managers don’t have to redesign a building to engineer these encounters. Just by observing where employees View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
displaces human activity, it will also push people out of jobs. To what degree will this happen? Iansiti: There’s a pretty good consensus that there’s going to be a massive transformation in the nature of work. Every job can be done... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advice on Advice
poorly, either by taking the conversation to unrelated tangents or by omitting key information that might cast the advice-seeker in a poor light Misjudging the quality of the advice they are given Once advice-seekers have received... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
experience, autonomy. These are naturally definers of where an individual should be placed within a salary range. Those differences should be easily explained and verifiable upon request." Dan S. pointed out that disclosing pay... View Details
- 09 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations
negotiation?). In vaguely defined situations, there is increased opportunity for misunderstanding and conflict. But given the distinctive nature of negotiations for families in business, 5 basic principles of negotiation that have proven... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
if pursuing a less hectic pace may mean sacrificing career advancement. Also, default to saying “no” for most unplanned, last-minute impositions on your time, especially requests that benefit someone else, like a side work project. While you may say “yes” to a quick... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
firms are able to avoid defensiveness and resulting blindness. HCHP firms institutionalize what I call Learning and Governance Systems, a means for having honest, collective, and public conversations with key people at lower levels about... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
without considering whether it is the best platform for their product and/or whether they’ll be able to hire engineers who are skilled in .NET (or want to learn it) to build it at scale. I’ve also seen many startups default to the View Details
- 04 Feb 2022
- Book
Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries
from Ripe for Revolution, Friedman discusses how conventional thinking about socialism has evolved since the Cold War. Book Excerpt Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World Jeremy Friedman Socialist Revolution as a Global Process During the Cold War,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
conversations with their bosses, notes Thomas DeLong, who teaches organizational behavior at Harvard Business School. "I'm amazed that although organizations are willing to set metrics for success in difficult times, so few... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
country involves zero risk. There is, however, a growing list of events that are overlooked by risk managers, ranging from natural disasters, to geopolitical, technological, contractual, or demand factors. A first warning emerging from... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
team at Harvard Business Press, led by the talented Kathleen Carr, had been generating a host of innovative ideas that naturally aligned with this book's innovative format—the use of artistic illustrations was their suggestion, and we... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
different in some regards, both have been shown to be stronger when the work is visible to people the programmer wants to impress (colleagues, venture capitalists, the overall job market). With immediate rewards, commercial projects have an edge as far as money... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat
Economics Paul Novosad. “Just the conversations that are happening in the UN are important in determining international priorities” Among their findings: Powerful countries including the United States, China, and India have less... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
pandemic is likely to change how companies do business. Here’s what they said: Michael Beer: Organizations will develop trust-based cultures with employees The coronavirus challenge demands an organization-wide, honest conversation that... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
understood by the theory of rational addiction—“a theory that fails to explain why addicts often regret their behavior or regard it as a mistake,” she says. But she found the framework, which has historically been applied only to harmful behaviors, was useful to shift... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams
otherwise emerge from group discussions and making the teams less productive. “Even subtle ways of making people feel powerful have powerful effects on behavior.” The observation would run counter to the way we usually think about group dynamics—surely, a strong leader... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
ultimate leader of the business, ownership, and family is the natural choice for most families (and most nonfamily groups) around the world. The preference for one leader seems only slightly culturally driven; it's very common in Italy,... View Details