Friday Features: 16-August-2019
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BY Kate Isaacs & Deborah Ancona via Harvard Business Review
All organizations have the ability to be smarter than the sum of their members’ intelligence and talent. Unfortunately, most are actually dumber. The good news is there are a handful of practical steps to boost collective intelligence.
BY Brian Solis via MIT Sloan Management Review
To regain focus in an ever-distracting digital world, managers must not only give employees tools and training but also model the right behaviors themselves.
BY Benjamin Finzi et al. via BAIN INSIGHTS
Practicing disruptive jiu-jitsu—learning from the competition, then deliberately disrupting one’s own business model to stay ahead of it—can enable CEOs to go on the offensive in the face of disruptive marketplace threats.
BY Thomas Barta & Patrick Barwise via McKinsey Quarterly
Most of the leadership advice aimed at senior functional managers is how to build, align, energize, and guide a world-class team. This is a challenging task in its own right, but we all know it isn’t the whole story. Leaders, even those in the C-suite, must also extend their influence upward and horizontally
BY David Robson via Aeon
Research has shown that people who are prone to rumination also often suffer from impaired decision-making under pressure and are at a substantially increased risk of depression. Instead, the scientific research suggests that you should adopt an ancient rhetorical method favored by the likes of Julius Caesar and known as “illeism” —or speaking about yourself in the third person... The idea is that this small change in perspective can clear your emotional fog, allowing you to see past your biases..
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Narayan Kamath
