3590 Posts Found

Psychological safety takes off the brakes that keep people from achieving what’s possible. But it’s not the fuel that powers the car. In any challenging industry setting, leaders have two vital tasks. One, they must build psychological safety to spur learning and avoid preventable failures; two, they must set high standards and inspire and enable people to reach them.

Content: Quotation | Author: Amy Edmondson | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Employee recognition is the timely informal or formal acknowledgement of a person’s or team’s behavior, effort or business result that supports the organization’s goals and values. It is a known fact that appreciation is one of the top motivators for employees to work harder and to be more committed to their companies. Even cost-efficient forms of appreciation show employees that they are valued. Therefore, here … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Martin Luenendonk | Source: Cleverism | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

Why should organizations care about groupthink? Why not just let the prevailing point of view stand? That may be an expedient solution, but it can cause problems in the long run. An innovative enterprise needs employees who feel that they can contribute freely and bring their whole selves to work. If people are expected to rise above the status quo and challenge their competitors, they … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Jeffrey Schwartz, Malcolm Thompson, Maud Lindley | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

If you’re a leader taking a stand on values in your enterprise, you have a seemingly Herculean task: to engage all your employees, regardless of their attitudes and backgrounds. It’s not possible to achieve your goal by excluding the people who disagree with the prevailing corporate point of view. Nor can you avoid values altogether these days; some topics, including diversity and inclusion, LGBT identity, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Jeffrey Schwartz, Malcolm Thompson, Maud Lindley | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Many companies support resource groups that bring people together, but stop short of assessing their value.

Content: Article | Author: Maya Townsend | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

Compensation is culture, period. It’s how you pay your people and it’s where the rubber hits the road. It’s the metric you can’t cheat. It’s naive to think that you’re just going to give people money and they’re not going to feel everything that’s attached to it. Pay is incredibly personal and emotionally charged. It directly affects how we live our lives and how we … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Bethanye McKinney Blount | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Compensation, Culture, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

We found through our research […] what drives perceived fairness in the performance-management process. One of the drivers of fairness is that you understand how what you’re working on fits in the bigger picture. […] The second driver of fairness is that there’s an ongoing component. “My manager has an ongoing conversation with me about how I’m doing, so I’m not surprised. I know what … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

There are strong arguments that diversity promotes effectiveness. But I think that has implications that people haven’t really thought through. What about situations where some people believe diversity produces ineffectiveness? That’s not a hypothetical — this has long been the argument against diversity in the military. But there’s a counter-argument rooted in social justice. Do I want to live in a world where people’s outcomes … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Ken Shotts | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

Is it any wonder that so many of us are scared of change?

Before we completed our research into this phenomenon, I often wondered how rational and intelligent people could make such sloppy and irrational arguments against obvious improvements.

Today, I have a much better idea why people resist the inevitable. If you’re unsure why those around you are having such a difficult time embracing a new … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Lior Arussy | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

Every organization, regardless of its scale, faces the same universal problems: how to divide goals into tasks (division of labor) and how to put the results back together again (integration of effort). While these problems are universal, there are many different approaches to solving them, and a set of such solutions is an organization’s design.

Content: Quotation | Author: Phanish Puranam | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Increasing the number of women at every level of an organization is possible if its leaders are ready to use practical solutions.

Content: Article | Authors: Addie Swartz, James M. Citrin | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Women in Business

6 ways to communicate challenging concepts to an audience.

Content: Article | Author: Matt Abrahams | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Communication, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Though AI and other advanced technologies have been applied to improve forecasting accuracy, sales leaders still get blindsided by forecasts that turn out to be embarrassingly overinflated. That’s because the root causes of most inaccuracies are not faulty algorithms but all-too-human behavior. Here are five of the most harmful such behaviors and some techniques that can go a long way toward redesigning systems in ways … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Bob Suh | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Management, Marketing / Sales, Organizational Behavior

You can have more decisions than decision-makers, but if you have more decision-makers than decisions, that’s when you run into problems.

Content: Quotation | Author: James Everingham | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Decision Making, Management

When you think of transparency, you usually default to the communication aspect: telling everyone what’s happening or admitting when you’ve made a mistake. But when folks say that things aren’t transparent, what they’re probably getting at is that decision-making isn’t transparent. It’s the feeling that decisions sometimes roll on down from the lofty perch of the leadership team, seemingly out of nowhere. Instead, pull back … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: James Everingham | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Communication, Decision Making, Management, Organizational Behavior

All of us — individuals, teams, and organizations — have weaknesses. These are not skill gaps; those can be corrected with learning. Weaknesses are inherent deficiencies of talent or capability that do not change even after aggressive efforts to improve them. Pride and our ingrained work ethic may cause us to deny our weaknesses, but acceptance is the first step toward designing for strength.

[…] … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: John K. Coyle | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Career, Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Moral character is a broad dimension of personality that captures a person’s tendency to think, feel, and behave in ethical ways. It subsumes a number of more specific traits. For example, guilt proneness is an important moral character trait. People who have high levels of guilt proneness have a strong conscience — they feel guilty when they make mistakes or let others down. Moreover, they … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Taya Cohen | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Human Resources, Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Widespread transformation always unleashes waves of collective fear, discontent, and doubt—emotions that often translate into vocal, and potentially more destructive, opposition. …If left unacknowledged, adversaries have the power to derail even the worthiest attempts at reform, and thus it is a leader’s responsibility to identify and, when necessary, neutralize his or her most powerful critics. But how is the person at the center of the … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Nancy Koehn | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

I’m a big believer in teaching leaders to fish. That’s why we’ve rolled out a weekly(ish) email for leaders … that summarizes all the things they need to be thinking about in terms of managing and messaging to their team. We break it down into a few sections: things to know, things to do, things to share. It sounds simple, but let’s be real, leaders … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Terra Carmichael | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Communication, Human Resources, Leadership, Management

Addressing anchoring bias can lead to more accurate budget forecasts, better budget conversations, and more dynamic resource reallocation.

Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Dan P. Lovallo, Sean Brown, Tim Koller | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Finance, Management, Organizational Behavior