Ideas
How Productivity Influences Knowledge Acquisition Strategies
Idea posted: July 2022
Institutions: Indiana University Henley Business School University of Reading
Where should companies source the knowledge and new ideas that will keep them at the forefront of innovation? The answer, according to an extensive study of 18,000 UK firms, depends…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #823
Why Belief in One’s Capability Drives Behavioural Change
Idea posted: July 2022
Institutions: Stanford University
Bandura’s paper marks a major shift in psychology by proposing self‑efficacy as the unifying cognitive mechanism underlying behavioural change. He begins by noting a paradox in the field: although theories…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #CL007
Address Physical, Mental, Emotional and Social Resilience to Improve Performance and Engagement
Idea posted: July 2022
Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)
Resilience is the ability to adaptively respond to challenges and avoid the burnout and feelings of being overwhelmed that can damage the well-being, health and performance of leaders and employees.…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #822
From Uniformity to Complexity: Rethinking Human Nature Through Culture
Idea posted: June 2022
Institutions: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
In this seminal essay, Geertz examines how the rise of the anthropological concept of culture transformed the concept of human nature. He begins by contrasting Enlightenment thinking, which viewed humans…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #CL006
How Group Rituals Enhance Meaning in Work
Idea posted: June 2022
Institutions: University of Virginia University of Virginia Darden Business School Kenan-Flagler Business School University of California University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business University of Chicago Booth School of Business Harvard Business School
Companies recognize today that helping employees find meaning and purpose in their work will maximize employee satisfaction, motivation, engagement, and performance. The challenge for leaders is how to increase meaning…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #821
Why Human Thought Emerged from Shared Intentionality and Cooperation
Idea posted: May 2022
Institutions: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
In A Natural History of Human Thinking, Michael Tomasello proposes that what makes human thinking unique is not simply culture or language, but the evolution of shared intentionality, the ability…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #CL005
How Signaling Motives Send Women Managers Towards the “Glass Cliff”
Idea posted: May 2022
Institutions: LMU Munich University of Konstanz
Prior research has revealed a ‘glass cliff’ phenomenon: Companies in crisis situations are more likely to appoint women top managers than companies that are not in trouble. These disproportionate crisis…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #820
Why Brain Size Limits the Size of Our Social Groups
Idea posted: April 2022
Institutions: Department of Anthropology, University College London
Dunbar’s paper addresses a long‑standing question in primate evolution: why do primates have unusually large brains relative to their body size? Competing theories propose ecological explanations (such as the cognitive…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #CL004
Hybrid Working Leads to Faster Product Development
Idea posted: April 2022
Institutions: University of St. Gallen University of Kassel
In a bid to increase the agility, quality, and speed of its product development process, companies are exploring with the use of external talent through crowdworking—a form of crowdsourcing in…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #819