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

Harvard Business Review

If you’ve participated in a training or development program in the past two decades, chances are you took an assessment designed to increase self-awareness. And the correlation was even lower for work-related skills. Teach self-development skills in addition to self-awareness. would indicate total accuracy).

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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist

Harvard Business Review

And the corporate executive playing games to improve his or her strategy-making skills is still rare. In our work with executives and strategy games, we see five distinct benefits of using games for enhancing strategy formulation and execution skills: 1. This is unfortunate. Games provide inexpensive, real-time feedback.

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The Portable Leader Is the New “Organization Man”

Harvard Business Review

And its participants were the kind of accomplished, ambitious, and mobile managers for which companies wage talent wars. Depending on where the market is heading and the trends we see in business, I am very open to different things. I always think of myself as acquiring skills, not necessarily taking a job.