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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. So what’s the right approach to resolving conflicts at work?

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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. Training programs, pilots, or short-term trials may be available. Sponsored by Medtronic. Cost structure. Ease of use. Regulatory and compliance.

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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.

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Are Business Schools Creating Higher-Ambition Leaders?

Harvard Business Review

They start with the development of the company's purpose and strategy, and then proceed to design performance management, business and human resource policies, and leadership development practices that are tied to essential human values that then comprise an integrated whole. Given this challenge, what can business schools do?