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Feeling Ambivalent About Your Boss Hurts Your Performance Even More Than Disliking Them

Harvard Business Review

and the rest of the participants were undergraduate students at a UK university who engaged in a business simulation. This involves creating an environment where employees feel safe being themselves and raising issues. We conducted three studies in which we surveyed a total of 952 individuals.

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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist

Harvard Business Review

First, there has never been a greater need for companies to learn new ways of doing things in response to a complex and dynamic business environment. Well-produced strategy games can model environments tailored to a company’s circumstances and targeted skills. It was released at the same time as a book with the same name.

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Participants are taken out of their day-to-day workplaces to be inspired by expert faculty, work on case studies, receive personal feedback, and take away the latest leadership thinking (and badges for their résumés). Business simulations or unstructured large group dialogues are examples of this.