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Is It Time For A Peer-Reviewed Bonus System?

LDRLB

It lets me reward people that management may not always recognize,” employee Becky Neil told the Wall Street Journal. Overtime, however, HCL’s system sheds light on who employees believe are the real linchpins of the company and allows HCL’s management to make the needed equity adjustments. David Burkus is the editor of LDRLB.

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Good Bosses Switch Between Two Leadership Styles

Harvard Business Review

These two leadership styles, which I and other researchers refer to as dominance and prestige , respectively, reflect two fundamental strategies people use to navigate their way through social and organizational hierarchies. Some leadership situations call for dominance, whereas others call for prestige.

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Is Employee Engagement Just a Reflection of Personality?

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, even before organizations started talking about the need to “engage employees,” many managers appeared to regard motivation as something individuals brought with them to work — a characteristic of people they hired. Many innovators also have problems with authority and a predisposition to challenge the status quo.

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Are CEOs Overhyped and Overpaid?

Harvard Business Review

For example, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk enjoy cult-like status and are widely regarded as modern tycoons of innovation. My focus was on peer-reviewed journal articles (academic papers) that included reliable measures of CEO attributes (e.g., This is particularly true when it comes to leaders and entrepreneurs.

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How Physicians Can Keep Up with the Knowledge Explosion in Medicine

Harvard Business Review

Innovating for Value in Health Care. One service, called UpToDate , employs 6,300 physician authors, editors, and peer reviewers to manually review the most recent medical information to produce synopses for practicing doctors. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. We have already begun to go down this road.

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Surgeons Are Using Social Media to Share and Learn New Skills

Harvard Business Review

This dispersion of practice makes it more likely that a surgeon today may be the only one to perform certain procedures in a given geographic region (particularly outside of large cities) and that innovative ideas, tips, and best practices may arise from outside of the traditional academic “hubs.” ” Enter social media.

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