Friday Features
27-September-2019
Friday Features - a weekly selection of useful insights from business schools, consulting firms and publications to help you Unleash Your Leadership
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BY Douglas A Ready via MIT Sloan Management Review
How we work is changing, but why we work and what we hope to achieve through our work remain largely the same. We want to be part of something larger, something special, something that helps make this world we live in a better place. Your leadership narrative can motivate others in important ways. Finding your narrative — one that expresses authentically, transparently, and courageously what you believe in as a leader, what you are about, and indeed what you are willing to fight for — will let you begin to unite individuals into teams, and teams into amazing communities.
BY Lee Simmons via Stanford Insights
There’s no shortage of ways to fail... Companies can respond with a flawed strategy. They can be hamstrung by vested interests or internal politics. Or they can simply fail to execute for lack of unfamiliar new skills. But at a more basic level, firms need to recognize the need for change...organizations tend to operate with a kind of blind momentum, often paddling furiously in the same direction as they sink into insolvency.
BY Liz Guthridge via Forbes
To help people learn and grow, you’ve got to let them do the figurative heavy lifting. Showing them what to do is out of place. And telling them or selling them on your preferred mode of development wastes their time and yours.
BY Stephanie Vozza via FastCompany
Gut reactions can be good in some situations, but they’re actually the result of your brain taking a shortcut. When you rely on intuition, you’re using your limbic system—the part of the brain responsible for emotions—and unfortunately it doesn’t have a good track record for making the best decisions
BY Scott Barry Kaufman via Scientific American
What does it take to live a meaningful life? In trying to answer this question, most researchers focus on the valence of the life experience: is it positive or negative? However, new studies raise the intriguing possibility that the more relevant factor may be the extremity of the experience, not the valence. Perhaps both extremely pleasant and extremely painful events relative to more neutral events share a common set of characteristics that might lead them to be found more meaningful
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