Curated articles from various sources.
MIT Means that we need a more nuanced approach to predicting job performance. For all the promise new predictability techniques hold, it’s difficult to measure something as complex as a person for several reasons, we must concur. The best guess here regarding personality and potential tests is that results have been mixed (at best). On the one…
How can organizations achieve their strategic objectives? Few questions are more fundamental in business, and yet few resources are available to provide clear, concise answers. To address this gap, Donald Sull, a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan and his co-authors, have partnered with MIT Sloan Management Review on the ongoing Strategic Agility Project. Highlighted here in this…
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Think about the most tired you’ve ever been at work. It probably wasn’t when you stayed late or came home from a road trip — chances are it was when you had someone looking over your shoulder, watching your each and every move. “If we know that micromanagement isn’t really effective, why do we do…
According to the contentions of this article by The Economist, Liberalism made the modern world, but the modern world is turning against it. Europe and America are in the throes of a popular rebellion against liberal elites, who are seen as self-serving and unable, or unwilling, to solve the problems of ordinary people. Elsewhere a…
MIT Sloan contends here that an important executive goal in most large companies is to improve efficiency and effectiveness. With top-line revenue growth elusive in most markets, a key way to increase returns to shareholders is to boost the bottom line — and that means stepping up productivity. These gains need to come from improving…
McKinsey & Co means that management practices focusing on “hard” incentives, rewards, and consequences, as well as on employees’ mind-sets and values, make workplaces safer. Furthermore, that a high level of safety for all employees is important in itself, of course, and when companies fall short they expose themselves to greater liability, reputational risk, and…
