Friday Features: 26-July-2019
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BY Anoop Menon via Knowledge@Wharton
Why do some scientific breakthroughs take off while others languish in the shadows? In their paper, “Breakthrough Recognition: Competing for Attention,” Wharton management professor Anoop Menon and Sen Chai, a management professor at ESSEC Business School in France, analyzed more than 5.3 million research papers published in the life sciences between 1970-1999 to see what might be hindering some ideas from gaining wider recognition.
BY Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries via INSEAD KNOWLEDGE
In organisations, the Icarus syndrome characterises leaders who initiate overly ambitious projects that come to naught, causing harm to themselves and others in the process. Fuelled by excitement, these leaders are unable to rein in their misguided enthusiasm before it is too late. Often, these leaders have let adulation go to their heads
BY Jesse Sostrin via Strategy+Business
A combination of dialectical thinking and being able to perceive and make more choices can give you the ability to better navigate the complicated, ambiguous, and fast-changing circumstances you confront.
BY Shivani Vora et al. via Accenture Insights
The more a company uses data, the more it can build personalized experiences and engender trust on a micro―individual customer―level. And that’s a good thing. But, something to consider: the more micro data is shared within an organization and throughout an ecosystem, the greater the likelihood of macro trust incidences that negatively impact a company’s image.
BY Harvey Deutschendorf via FastCompany
According to studies carried out by Development Dimensions International (DDI), empathy is the biggest single leadership skill needed today. According to Richard S. Wellins, senior vice president of DDI, “Being able to listen and respond with empathy is overwhelmingly the one interaction skill that outshines all other skills.”
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Narayan Kamath
