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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

All firms must empower people with the knowledge and incentives to execute the task to benefit the organization. Finally, leaders must develop a culture that communicates the organization’s vision and strategy. Then these individuals’ performance must be measured and rewarded.

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Evidence | Unicorns | Bullshit: 3 Areas Of Team Building & Leadership Effectiveness

Mike Cardus

In management as well as team development humans and behaviors do not operate in the same short term cause-effect process that machines do. There are secondary sources (academic journals, peer reviewed articles, existing Body of Knowledge, etc…) that are applicable and provide evidence for what you are doing. Bob Sutton.

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Cracking the Behavior Code

Great Leadership By Dan

Economists argue that things will improve when we get the incentives right. He is the former Chief Scientist of Express Scripts, the nations largest pharmacy benefits management company, and has authored and published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers. Educators tell us that better behavior requires better information.

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Most Work Conflicts Aren’t Due to Personality

Harvard Business Review

For example, people’s interests may truly be opposed; roles and levels of authority may not be correctly defined or delineated; there may be real incentives to compete rather than to collaborate; and there may be little to no accountability or transparency about what people do or say.

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Simple Digital Technologies Can Reduce Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

Digital therapeutics are being increasingly validated in clinical trials published in peer-reviewed medical journals and are available or are being developed for most chronic diseases. An additional 32% of the population has “pre-diabetes” – meaning that they are at high risk of developing diabetes.

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Morning Advantage: An Ivory Tower. or a Gilded Cage?

Harvard Business Review

In turn, there’s less incentive to perform cross-disciplinary research, which, traditionally, has served as a catalyst for innovation. For one, the IOC uses most of its revenue to develop sports throughout the world. Instead, science is stuck in the status quo. Of course, the private sector is fraught with innovation problems too.

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How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works

Harvard Business Review

While financial incentive programs are popular, they may not achieve long-term behavior change; instead, they may lead to resentment and even rebellion among workers. This is because many traditional incentive programs are grounded on the assumption that people will behave in certain rational ways if paid to do so. Asking for help.