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12 Reads for 2012

LDRLB

Perhaps 2011’s greatest text on organizational creativity and innovation. Owens outlines the six types of constraints innovators face and how to remove them in your organization. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Creative People Must Be Stopped by David Owens. Adapt by Tim Harford.

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WOMEN: Moments in Your Day

Women in the LEAD

As a leader, co-worker, friend, mom, sister, wife or partner, it also reminds us how important our words and actions can be in influencing someone else's moments and experience: " According to Nobel Prize-winning scientist Daniel Kahneman, we experience approximately 20,000 individual moments in a waking day. Berrett -Koehler ?

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Can Being Overconfident Make You a Better Leader?

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel prize laureate and psychologist, has said that if he had a magic wand, he’d eliminate it. companies over the period from 1993 to 2011, asking the following question: Is there systematic evidence that overconfident CEOs are indeed better leaders? Most of us think of overconfidence as a bad thing.

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Research: Could Machine Learning Help Companies Select Better Board Directors?

Harvard Business Review

Advances in machine learning have led to innovations ranging from facial recognition software to self-driving cars. corporations between 2000 and 2011. Institutional investors often are critical of CEOs’ influence over boards and have made efforts to help companies improve their governance. Could technology help?