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The Number One Reason Employees Get Sick.Perceived Unfairness at Work

Great Leadership By Dan

In a nifty study by Naomi Eisenberger and colleagues at UCLA, she was able to use the latest technology to peer into the inner workings of our brain called functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) while a team was involved in a social exercise designed to provoke feelings of social isolation and rejection. & Kemeny. Kenneth Nowack, Ph.D.

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Soft Skills Are Vital If Low Skilled Workers Are To Thrive

The Horizons Tracker

At a firm level, this is usually translated into higher wages for employees at the most innovative firms, with new research from the London School of Economics showing that over 12 years, from 2004-2016, the typical worker in a non-innovative firm in the U.K. was paid around 20% less than their peers at one of the most innovative firms.

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To Crack the Glass Ceiling, Start with Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

When women start companies they quite naturally create more permeable and diverse management teams, having worked on gender diverse teams, or, conversely, having seen the pitfalls of being the token woman in a homogenous grouping. drop, from 2004 to 2009, in female engineers. There has also been a 5.2%

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A System for Speaking IT Truths to CEOs

Harvard Business Review

Over my 15 years of teaching a course on IT in health care, I've seen that for CIOs who are MDs, the skill of delivering difficult messages becomes part of their tool set for communicating effectively with senior management. Rather than try to educate the CEO about technology, focus on the portfolio of risks associated with the legacy system.

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A Female-Dominated Workplace Won't Fix Everything

Harvard Business Review

On the one hand, new technologies have enabled neuroscience to discover that men and women tend to be wired differently in ways that incline men — can it be? But there are gender-based distinctions in how men and women were able to regulate and manage their emotional response to these stimuli. Men on the job must feel besieged.

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How to Finance the Scale-Up of Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Tom Szaky knows well the meaning of the saying “ Beware your dreams, for they may come true. ” With the 2004 Christmas retail season rapidly approaching, he was trying everything he could to scale up TerraCycle , a two year old venture selling liquid worm poop as fertilizer in used PET bottles. You get the point.

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What Board Directors Really Think of Gender Quotas

Harvard Business Review

More than a decade ago, countries in Europe began to take measures to increase the gender diversity of their corporate boards. Norway was the first to adopt a quota for female board members (40%) in 2004. Iceland, Norway) as well as in countries still working toward achieving their gender diversity quotas (e.g., In the U.S.,