Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile and independent researcher Steven Kramer explore the connection between work satisfaction and work productivity in this brief article from the New York Times. The duo are also the authors of the book “The Progress Principle”, released in July 2011. The article spells out what is at the heart of [...]
Posted on September 6, 2011 in Articles
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This article about decision fatigue discloses fascinating research about what impacts the decisions we make everyday and how our decision making process can be much more work than we recognize. It is a must read for every leader interested in improving their effectiveness. Click here to view the article.
This is a very interesting article from the New York Times that shows the extent to which medical schools now recognize the impact on hospital culture and performance by teams that do not work cohesively. It is also encouraging to see these schools taking proactive steps to positively impact the hospital culture of the future by [...]
Posted on July 11, 2011 in Articles
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Do we get into debates, discussions, and arguments just to find the truth of the matter? Or could there be a more insidious side of our process of reasoning through an issue? New research by Hugo Mercier (pictured below) and others is showing that there may be an evolutionary advantage to highly-developed reasoning abilities. Think [...]
Martin Seligman is considered by some to be the father of positive psychology. In his initial publishings, he focused much of his attention on the subject of happiness.While this is certainly a broad subject, it was relatively undervalued in the field of psychology, which often focused on mental illness and pathology. Now, he’s willing to [...]
Research studies in the social sciences are met with varying degrees of acceptance among the general population. In the field of psychology in particular, many people hold to some level of skepticism when new studies are released or a new theory is anointed as some type of game-changer. The psychologists behind these theories often remain [...]
According to Google’s latest research on management, technical knowledge and ability are not key components to the most successful managers. Adam Bryant’s article in the New York Times on this process is quite interesting. Of course, we could have told them this, but they would not have had the data.
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