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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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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist

Harvard Business Review

People Express, for example, is a business simulator that provides players with a rich inside perspective on starting and managing an airline. In each simulated time period, the player makes strategic decisions and receives feedback from past decisions—on how fast to grow, how to set prices, or how aggressively to advertise.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

There will be a Farmville counterpart or equivalent that becomes a welcome teaching and/or business simulation and learning tool in the enterprise. But the companies that succeed in gameifying their products, services, and brands will enjoy a certain Zynga in their step. I haven't a clue. A Beautifully Designed Lobby.