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

Harvard Business Review

In our research , recently published in the Journal of Management, we set out to explore the effects of having an ambivalent relationship with one’s leader. and the rest of the participants were undergraduate students at a UK university who engaged in a business simulation. whether they were positive or negative).

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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist

Harvard Business Review

They allow managers to suspend normal rules in an acceptable way and they provide an effective audiovisual medium for absorbing ideas. People Express, for example, is a business simulator that provides players with a rich inside perspective on starting and managing an airline.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. Advertising will take a backseat to promotional offers as retailers and brand managers alike collectively decide that branding a promotion matters just as much as promoting a brand. That's right. Contestification.

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Over that time, I’ve come to appreciate four factors that lie at the heart of good, practical leadership development: making it experiential; influencing participants’ “being,” not just their “doing”; placing it into its wider, systemic context; and enrolling faculty who act less as experts and more as Sherpas.