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How to Avoid 3 Big Mistakes About Being Biased

Lead Change Blog

Hidden biases are neither a moral failing nor a sign of a bad person. Biases can be managed and minimized but total elimination is highly unlikely given the brain thing that’s going on. Scientist Peter Senge wrote about how success messes with our ability to reason. Bias mistake #2: Believing that training eliminates bias.

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The Rise of Compassionate Management (Finally)

Harvard Business Review

Don’t look now, but all of a sudden the topic of compassionate management is becoming trendy. This isn’t surprising: given the number of nasty managers still sitting at the top of organizations, it’s easy to assume that the compassionate ones don’t often get hired, let alone encouraged and promoted. Managing people Morale'

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Gothenberg, Sweden, is a long way to travel from Boston for a breakthrough idea in management — especially one that is more than 40 years old. Berwick’s talk spanned a pantheon of management thinkers to show the audience just how far we have come from Taylor to Deming in the 20th century. Laura Schneider for HBR.

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LeadershipNow 140: December 2015 Compilation

Leading Blog

Disciplines of a Learning Organization: Peter Senge by @Tnvora. How to Increase Leaders' Moral Authority by David Dubois via @INSEADKnowledge. Four Steps to Manage Your Crucial Conversations by Steve Knight, via @INSEADKnowledge. FT: How to deal with ‘toxic’ workers. How to Orchestrate Your Attitude by @SkipPrichard. SteveTobak.

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We Can’t Talk About Inequality Without Talking About Talent

Harvard Business Review

Its implicit goal is to be the moral equivalent of equity capital. And it wants to turn equity capital into the moral equivalent of debt — it should earn a fixed return on its investment and nothing more. And increasingly, this talent is aimed at taking all the spoils. It wants to capture all of the upside.

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