Assuming the potential or the risks of countless original ideas is something organizations tend to miss the mark on. Instead of assuming, leaders should be open to re-thinking about how their organizations are structured, and challenge old ideas that may ...
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How do we as leaders and organizations bring a sense of purpose in times of adversity? The past year has been a difficult one for many, but
Adam Grant offers a strategy to create and strengthen meaningful and resilient relationships within your organizati...
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To build a culture of innovation and original thinking, leaders should build a culture of psychological safety, encouraging those who are good at detecting problems to speak up even if they don't have solutions to these problems.
Organizations adopting a ...
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Within organizations, only a minority of people identify primarily as givers or takers, but others choose a third style called matching. Which is the most productive? Who's the most successful? Givers, takers or matchers? Through his research into ...
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A few times a week, I get requests for advice on negotiating a job offer. They usually start like this: I’m in the recruiting process, and I just received an offer from the organization that I want to join. I’d like to sign, but I was hoping for a higher ...
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When you become the head of a major company, you instantly join the ranks of the rich and famous. Ethical questions aside, new evidence shows that the perks of celebrity life are bad for companies. Here are six situations that CEOs might want to refuse:
1. ...
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Not long ago, the CEO of a sales company mentioned that he was spending millions of dollars to train his employees in emotional intelligence. He asked if it was possible to assess emotional intelligence during the interview process, which would allow him to ...
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To land a job or get into a university, we usually need someone to vouch for us. It can be tough to ask—recommenders are typically more senior than us, they’re busy, and we don’t always know where we stand in their eyes. When we work up the courage to ...
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Who contributes the most to organizations? Employees working selfishly to benefit themselves, or employees working selflessly to benefit others?
Recent research reveals a surprising answer: neither. For starters, it turns out that in contrast to popular ...
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How did a five-minute meeting motivate university fundraisers to increase their weekly productivity by 400%? How did a photograph drive radiologists to improve the accuracy of their diagnostic findings by 46%?
Was it managers who inspired such enormous ...
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In the old world of work, good guys finished last. "Takers” (those in organizations who put their own interests first) were able to climb to the top of hierarchies and achieve success on the shoulders of “givers” (those who prefer to contribute more ...
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We all know successful people who are self-serving at work, who take more than they offer. In a cutthroat, competitive world, they tend to dominate givers, colleagues who happily contribute without necessarily expecting anything in return. According to ...
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