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4 Ways To Reduce Workplace Negativity By Increasing Consistency

Tanveer Naseer

The brain craves certainty, and when you feel uncertain, the almond shaped structure in the brain called the amygdala releases chemicals into the blood stream that you experience as fear, anxiety and doubt. Provide regular updates Drama increases in direct proportion to the amount of uncertainty.

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Small Firms Shifting Horizons As A Result Of Brexit

The Horizons Tracker

Sectors such as chemicals, food and drink, and textiles were among the most enthusiastic shifters. ” The researchers accept that the Covid-19 crisis has added a considerable layer of uncertainty to the trading environment, both due to direct trading conditions but also the vulnerability of supply chains. .”

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Why Being Certain Means Being Wrong

Harvard Business Review

One sperm will be the first to pierce the egg's outer wall, triggering a chemical reaction that makes the egg's wall harder and impenetrable to competing sperm. As the female ovum floats down the fallopian tube, a few thousand sperm (of the 300 million that initially began the journey) search it out. We are not hardwired to suspend judgment.

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Sustainability Matters in the Battle for Talent

Harvard Business Review

Employees at semiconductor-chip-maker Intel recently devised a new chemistry process that reduced chemical waste by 900,000 gallons, saving $45 million annually. Upon completion, these participants are expected to identify and respond to future climate uncertainties within their respective areas of responsibility.

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A Refresher on Discovery-Driven Planning

Harvard Business Review

As McGrath and MacMillan explained in their original article, “conventional planning operates on the premise that managers can extrapolate future results from a well-understood and predictable platform of past experience.” ” Step 3: Define operational requirements. You can’t use one tool to handle all problems.

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Your Innovation Team Shouldn’t Run Like a Well-Oiled Machine

Harvard Business Review

Most innovation teams inside large companies are set up to operate like well-oiled machines. The most successful teams, on the other hand, operated less like highly efficient machines and more like ant colonies. and respond to chemical signals allows these relatively simple creatures to form such complex units.

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To Become More Adaptable, Take a Lesson from Biology

Harvard Business Review

Adaptable systems make multiple copies of everything and modify the copies to hedge against uncertainty. He has turned commodity parts into a proprietary service, just as nature turns the massive redundancy of just four DNA bases into a dazzling array of unique ways to deal with risk and uncertainty. Redundancy.