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How Scientific Communication Can Spread Misinformation

The Horizons Tracker

What’s more, the authors highlight that most researchers today get their information and access the literature through search engines and recommender systems that can create a filter bubble. It is not without costs, however, as the peer-review process is usually removed in the rush to print.

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The Under-Representation Of Women As First Authors

The Horizons Tracker

The courses covered social science; humanities; science, technology, engineering and mathematics; and other. The representation of female authors on syllabi was lower than representation of females as authors in the peer-reviewed literature or in the workforce.

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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

We remained steadfastly committed to having all our staff from custodians, plumbers, and bus drivers to engineers, architects, and finance directors, trained in the culture we wanted to create and the culture we expected each of our people to honor. This involved several more years and another 1,800 people, 60% of whom were union employees.

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The Countries with the Boldest Business Leaders

Harvard Business Review

This accords with other, peer-reviewed research that shows a connection between displaying confidence and being perceived as competent. (If We found a highly significant correlation (r= 0.936 sig.000 If you would like to participate in this survey to get a sense of your preference for engaging in bold leadership, you can do so here.).

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Banks and lenders have predictive analytics engines that tell the lender the probability that a customer will pay them back. These are not the foundations of a proper science that verifies knowledge through experiment and replication of findings in peer-reviewed studies.

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Stop Using the Excuse “Organizational Change Is Hard”

Harvard Business Review

Suddenly, employees disengage en masse and then the change engine begins to sputter in both perception and reality. A 1994 article in the peer-reviewed journal Information Systems Management presents Hammer and Champy’s estimate as a fact and changes “50 percent to 70 percent” to just “70 percent.”

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

So large-scale re-engineering programs, productivity drives, and changes to the incentive system are unlikely to work: they can easily be resisted, ignored or gamed. Since taking the job four years ago, he has sought ways of giving greater responsibility to his 80-person division of software engineers. Lead by example.