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

Harvard Business Review

With 58 teams and more than 300 leaders performing in a dynamic and competitive business simulation , we tested the extent to which accurate self-awareness was related to team effectiveness, which was evaluated across a number of business metrics like market share, ROA, customer awareness, productivity, and so forth.

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The Portable Leader Is the New “Organization Man”

Harvard Business Review

Our findings reveal that the “portable leader” is the contemporary equivalent of the “ organization man ” of old — a cherished, demanding, and problematic ideal that boosts both the careers of people who conform to it and the status of firms that cultivate it. Our findings paint a different picture. .