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Protecting Your Company From Misinformation via Behavioral Science

Lead Change Blog

You can use decision aid strategies to address cognitive biases to defend your organization from misinformation. One of the most effective strategies is to help your employees and yourself build up a habit of automatically considering alternative possibilities to any claim you hear, especially claims that feel comfortable to you.

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How Scientific Communication Can Spread Misinformation

The Horizons Tracker

Nonetheless, misinformation remains a risk, and the authors argue that a crucial strategy for overcoming it is to better teach the public about what science is and is not. It is not without costs, however, as the peer-review process is usually removed in the rush to print.

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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

All organizations, lawful and unlawful, face the same corporate governance problem: how to attract, retain, and motivate a self-interested workforce to achieve the organization’s mission and strategy. Finally, leaders must develop a culture that communicates the organization’s vision and strategy. One Size Doesn’t Fit All.

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Pre-Print Studies Not Labelled As Such During Covid

The Horizons Tracker

The normal publishing process would not allow sufficient expediency to this process, so many papers have been published as preprint research that has not been peer-reviewed. The Covid-19 pandemic has seen a deluge of papers published by researchers around the world who are striving to understand and document the situation.

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360-Degree Feedback Programs To Help Your Company Grow

HR Digest

Approaches Peer Reviews Delicately An article by Harvard Business Review emphasizes why honest peer reviews are hard to find as people do not want to hurt their friends or feel it might reflect negatively on them as a team. Avoid personal questions and evaluations and focus on the individual’s work performance.

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Why Businesses Must Grasp Millennial Thinking or Face Economic Calamity

Great Leadership By Dan

They check websites, blogs, or peer reviews that they trust. About Gui Costin Gui Costin ( www.guicostin.com ), author of Millennials Are Not Aliens , is an entrepreneur, and founder of Dakota, a company that sells and markets institutional investment strategies. Information is essential. Instant gratification is paramount.

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The Under-Representation Of Women As First Authors

The Horizons Tracker

The representation of female authors on syllabi was lower than representation of females as authors in the peer-reviewed literature or in the workforce. This was then reflected in the readings on each course, with female instructors assigning a higher percentage of readings with female-first authors.