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Research: We’re Not Very Self-Aware, Especially at Work

Harvard Business Review

So my self-reported profile may suggest that I see myself as a persuasive speaker – but tell that to the audience who just fell asleep. A 2014 study of 22 meta-analyses (containing over 357,000 people) found an average correlation of.29 29 between self-evaluations and objective assessments (a correlation of 1.0

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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.