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Working Backward Is Key To Successful Pilots

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, your project may have succumbed to the Hawthorne Effect, or it may have contained a hidden parameter that you weren’t aware of during your testing. This is not to say, of course, that projects will automatically go from successful pilot to market with nothing in between.

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The Power of Interest and Attention - Your Mega Watt Tool for Success

Management Craft

One salient idea embedded in this statement (and reinforced throughout the book) is that overmanaging employees hinders our ability to accomplish our goals as managers and leaders. The need to set goals and measure performance is not an adequate excuse to overmanage or overboss people. The experiment produces a result of its own.

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Uber Shows How Not to Apply Behavioral Economics

Harvard Business Review

.” One such approach, according to Scheiber, compels drivers toward collecting more fares based on the insight from behavioral sciences that people are highly influenced by goals. It’s a well-documented social-science finding called the Hawthorne effect.) An estimated cost savings of $5.37