How Political Correctness Increases Creativity in Mixed-Sex Teams

Idea posted: April 2015

Institutions: Cornell University    University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business    Washington University Olin Business School    Vanderbilt University   

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Conventional wisdom has it that diversity helps creativity, in that people in homogenous groups are similar to one another with similar ideas and therefore less divergent thinking occurs. Also most…

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Power Reduces Awareness of Constraints

Idea posted: December 2013

Institutions: University of Texas McCombs School of Business    Brigham Young University Marriott School of Management    Columbia Business School    New York University Stern School of Business    Stanford Graduate School of Business    University of Colorado Boulder Leeds School of Business   

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When it comes to setting and achieving goals, power makes a difference. Those with more power are quicker to establish goals, and to take action to achieve those goals, than…

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Leadership Alignment and Strategy Implementation

Idea posted: June 2013

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business    Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business    University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business   

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Through their research, the authors set out to examine the effects that leaders at different levels in an organization have on each other. To do so, they investigated the relation…

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Political Correctness Helps Expression in Mixed-Sex Teams

Idea posted: May 2013

Institutions: Cornell University    University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business    Washington University Olin Business School    The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania    Vanderbilt University   

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In January 2011, a football commentator found himself unceremoniously fired after he made a remark about the appearance of a female match official, and questioned whether another was capable of…

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