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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

In our research , recently published in the Journal of Management, we set out to explore the effects of having an ambivalent relationship with one’s leader. and the rest of the participants were undergraduate students at a UK university who engaged in a business simulation. whether they were positive or negative).

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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. How talent management is changing. Business simulations or unstructured large group dialogues are examples of this.