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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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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. whether it was good or bad) as well as their emotional experiences at work (i.e., More than two-thirds of these were working adults based in India, the UK, and the U.S.,

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Yet study after study, including my own , tells us the qualities that leaders in today’s world need are intuitive, dynamic, collaborative, and grounded in here-and-now emotional intelligence. Business simulations or unstructured large group dialogues are examples of this. What would work better?