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Beating Bias through Mindfulness Meditation
Idea posted: October 2013
Institutions: INSEAD The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Sunk cost bias has been blamed for everything from disastrous military campaigns to over-budget public works and is widely acknowledged as a serious obstacle to effective decision-making. Defined as the…
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Decision-Making With Emotional Intelligence
Idea posted: September 2013
Institutions: University of Toronto Rotman School of Management Yale University
Emotional intelligence — the awareness and understanding of emotions — has a variety of workplace applications and benefits. Leaders who perceive and relate to the emotions of those they direct…
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The Surprising Reality of the Leadership of Change
Idea posted: September 2013
Institutions: Vlerick Business School
The KSV plastics company is in trouble. A myopic cost control program has created supply chain and production problems and made it difficult to deliver orders on time and…
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When Allowing Decision Latitude Can Backfire
Idea posted: September 2013
Institutions: Columbia Business School Harvard Business School
Most leaders now recognize (at least theoretically if not always in practice) the ineffectiveness of the old school top-down, command-and-control leadership style. The knowledge worker of the information age is…
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Leaders Less Stressed than Followers Due to a Sense of Control
Idea posted: September 2013
Institutions: Harvard Business School Rady School of Management Stanford Graduate School of Business
In a classic Harvard Business Review article published in 1981, Harry Levinson said “managing others… creates unending stress… Today’s managers face increasing time pressures with little respite.” Levinson’s view is…
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Aristotle, Ethics and the ‘Art’ of Leadership
Idea posted: September 2013
Institutions: Saïd Business School, University of Oxford University of Nottingham
In Aristotle’s great work the Nicomachean Ethics, happiness (eudaimonia) is not a feeling so much as a state — and a state with a distinctly moral dimension. Synonymous with ‘living…
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Leadership: Is it in the Genes?
Idea posted: August 2013
Institutions: NUS Business School
The ‘nature v. nurture’ debate has been around for centuries, argued over by psychologists, sociologists and the like; the business world has not escaped from it either. Whether leaders are…
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Co-operative Behaviour: Neuroscience Insights
Idea posted: July 2013
Institutions: Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
A growing number of studies in both the field and the laboratory demonstrate that people are imperfect co-operators — they tend to co-operate only if others do so, and a…
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Modern Tribes – Managing Diversity and Identity
Idea posted: July 2013
Institutions: IE Business School
The term “tribalism” was coined by sociologist Michel Maffesoli in the 1980s to explain a shift in Western society from one built around the individual to a world populated by…
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