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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. We conducted three studies in which we surveyed a total of 952 individuals. More than two-thirds of these were working adults based in India, the UK, and the U.S., whether they were positive or negative).

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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist

Harvard Business Review

People Express, for example, is a business simulator that provides players with a rich inside perspective on starting and managing an airline. In each simulated time period, the player makes strategic decisions and receives feedback from past decisions—on how fast to grow, how to set prices, or how aggressively to advertise.

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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.

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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. If you're not running an innovative innovation contest to invite participation and build brand, then you're reacting to your competitor's competition. That's right. Contestification. Who's running it?