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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.

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Rushing Back From Covid-19 Could Be Hugely Dangerous

The Horizons Tracker

This approach provides the best outcomes in terms of both health and the economy. The team were striving to understand the best way to keep people, and the economy, safe until a vaccine is developed, which the team assumed was 76 weeks. Until a vaccine. This was common across all three scenarios, all of which had a number of constants.

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Will You Be Writing Off Your Investment in Egypt?

Harvard Business Review

In both places, we know the instability will worsen macroeconomic performance in the short term. If that is the case, and the faster growth generates higher profits for them over the long term, that might well compensate for any short-term losses from the disruption. Tunisia and Egypt are cases in point.

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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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Most Work Conflicts Aren’t Due to Personality

Harvard Business Review

Most of us are, by nature, “cognitive misers,” a term coined by social psychologists Susan Fiske and Shelley Taylor to describe how people have a tendency to preserve cognitive resources and allocate them only to high-priority matters. There’s a good reason why we’re inclined to jump to conclusions based on limited information.

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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. Introducing short-term campaigns. In fact, they may even do more harm than good by promoting quick fixes as opposed to long-term progress. Asking for help.

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How to Manage a Toxic Employee

Harvard Business Review

“You might meet with them and ask how they’re doing — at work, at home, and with their career development,” suggests Porath. ” Also discuss what kind of behavior you’d like to see instead and develop an improvement plan with the employee. Struggling in their personal life? Frustrated with coworkers?