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What Information Helps Us To Cooperate?

The Horizons Tracker

To add further spice to proceedings, participants were placed in a couple of conditions to see if that affected their willingness to cooperate. A second condition, called the “money in your mouth” condition, informed each participant about the number of times their decision to share would be shared with the rest of the group.

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Leader Isolation: 6 Ways to Conquer Loneliness at the Top

RapidStart Leadership

Leadership can bring with it a sense of isolation. This can be particularly true of new leaders and those chosen from among a peer group to take on a formal leadership position. As Tony Blair says, “The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. Cultivate a mentor.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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Michael Fraccaro, CHRO at Mastercard, on the value of business resource groups

HR Digest

I’d say we’re very focused on creating a skilled workforce and leadership pipeline that can execute our strategy. I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” That’s a point-of-view that’s shared across our senior leadership team.

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Pushing Employees to Go the Extra Mile Can Be Counterproductive

Harvard Business Review

Good acts build up credits which act as a hedge against the debits of future bad acts. Develop a work environment in which people are more intrinsically inspired to participate in pro-organization behaviors. And make sure that senior leadership models organizational citizenship without the rewards of bonus pay or other perks.

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3 Ways to Get Your Own Digital Platform

Harvard Business Review

Digital platforms are grease for the flywheel, facilitating the rapid exchange of value between network participants at near-zero marginal cost. However, this may have been a hedging strategy as Starbucks built up its own digital capability, including a popular app and payment system. Building in-house is not for the faint of heart.

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Saudi Arabia’s New Economic Reforms: A Concise Explainer

Harvard Business Review

While there is little prospect for political reform on a wider scale — Saudi Arabia is and remains a traditional monarchy with limited public participation in policymaking — the current reform process is an important one, and one indicative of the sort of the socio-economic challenges the Gulf oil producers increasingly face.