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Ethical Leaders Bolster Creativity In Their Teams

The Horizons Tracker

The supervisors from each team were asked to evaluate the usefulness and novelty of ideas generated by their teams, while the team members were also asked how ethical their leaders were. The researchers quizzed 327 employees from across 55 different teams in South Korea. The organization regards creativity as crucial to its success.

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We Need Time To Adapt To New Colleagues

The Horizons Tracker

Recent research from Bocconi University highlighted that we often develop the best ideas when we work with people we don’t know well, but then we develop those ideas most effectively with people we know well.

Diversity 129
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How to Be a Family-Friendly Boss

Harvard Business Review

He was able to spend time building his lifetime bond with his daughter, and to be present throughout her one and only (and all-too-fleeting) childhood. He’s proved that work-family balance and high performance can be complementary rather than contradictory forces.

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Workers, Take Off Your Headphones

Harvard Business Review

It's just that kind of loss of daily osmotic information exchange and collaborative bonding that ought to concern 21st century employees and employers. It's about information exchange, resource exchange, idea generation and on and on.

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People Skills Are Hard Skills - More Than You Know

Building Personal Strength

That's a lot of people skills - way more than managers or experts acknowledge.

Skills 104
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Office Jargon

Great Leadership By Dan

Byte-bonding: When computer users get together and discuss things that noncomputer users don't understand. When the byte-bonded start playing on a computer during a noncomputer-related social event, they are "geeking out." Idea hamsters: people who always seem to have their idea generators running.

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