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Study Finds No Publishing Bias Against Novel Research

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers analyzed peer-reviewed data from nearly 50 journals in the physical and life science fields and found that evaluators didn’t show any noticeable bias against novelty, as has long been the fear. The researchers focused their attention on later-stage selection, as this is when projects are typically complete.

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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

Sounds a lot clearer than saying “we are going to embark on a six sigma project to improve efficiency,” doesn’t it? My most recent peer review included a comment that I needed to get a better car. To do that, we are going to identify any work effort that doesn’t make our product better and eliminate it.” I drive a Fiat 500.

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Projects Are the New Job Interviews

Harvard Business Review

But projects are the real future of hiring, especially knowledge working hiring. World-class talent will engage in bespoke real-world projects testing their abilities to deliver real value on their own and with others. Resumes are dead. Interviews are largely ineffectual. Linked-In is good. Portfolios are useful. Exploitive?

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Cracking the Behavior Code

Great Leadership By Dan

High performance often requires attention to detail and the ability to put effort into a project in the here and now for a reward in the future. He is the former Chief Scientist of Express Scripts, the nations largest pharmacy benefits management company, and has authored and published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers.

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Research: We Drop People Who Give Us Critical Feedback

Harvard Business Review

In fact, there is no managerial review processes. Every year, each employee completes a self-evaluation and reviews each of his or her identified colleagues from the past year. The online self-evaluation and peer-review questionnaires are identical (e.g.,

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Research: Women Ask for Raises as Often as Men, but Are Less Likely to Get Them

Harvard Business Review

In our project, we examined 4,600 randomly selected employees across 800 workplaces. When early reports of our work appeared in the press, the research was criticized by Sara Laschever and others, in part for not having gone through a full peer review. Both 14% of males and 14% of females say they have done this.

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How Physicians Can Keep Up with the Knowledge Explosion in Medicine

Harvard Business Review

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. Project DOC was able to establish digital connectivity across traditional primary care clinics, remote (e.g.,