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What’s Love Got to Do with Work?

Love is not a word often found in management literature, although the consensus now recognizes the power of emotions in motivating (or demotivating) people. Daniel Goleman and others have popularized the influence of emotions in effective leadership. But even in discussions involving emotions, rarely does the word ‘love’ come up. Love in the workplace? Don’t […]

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How Sleep Deprivation Can Cause Unethical Behaviour

Recent years have seen a surge in ‘unethical’ behaviours in the workplace, whether in the form of corporate scandals, fraud, or just disrespecting company values. As management research has focused on the drivers of such behaviours, increasingly sleep deprivation has come up; recent studies have found that sleep deprivation can deplete self-regulatory resources, which can […]

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Ways to Cope with Abusive Superiors

In recent years, there has been tremendous focus on ways to enhance employee engagement, performance and workplace outcomes. The crucial role of the supervisor has been at the centre of this focus, in particular the effects that an abusive supervisor can have on workplace outcomes, especially in the past decade. Previous research has defined abusive […]

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Self-Reflective Job Titles Reduce Emotional Exhaustion

A research team from Wharton and London Business School discovered the benefits of self-reflective job titles almost by accident. Wharton professor Adam Grant, PhD candidate Justin Berg, and London Business School professor Daniel Cable were investigating the impact of a series of initiatives by the Make-a-Wish Foundation’s CEO. These initiatives had the goal of fostering […]

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Positive and Negative Drivers of Creativity

The complexity and competitiveness of today’s business environment means knowledge of how creativity can be stimulated within organizations has become critical for effective managerial practice. Previous research has confirmed that positive affects, such as feelings of happiness and enthusiasm, lead to high creativity. But is positive effect alone all that is needed to encourage creativity, […]

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The Importance of Sleep for Work

Executives should stop working at cross-purposes with the brain and get more sleep if they want to function at their best, say researchers from the Center for Creative Leadership. In a 2013 White Paper, Carol Connolly, Marian Ruderman and Jean Brittain Leslie state that lack of sleep can cause problems not just for you but […]

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Reasons to Be Cheerful: Positivity Linked to Profitability

It is important to draw a distinction between over-confidence and over-optimism in business. The former can be seen as a pejorative term, linked to arrogance and hubris, and the latter as more ‘neutral’. Over-confident managers underestimate the risks of their decisions; over-optimistic ones are biased towards larger growth projections than the figures suggest. So is […]

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