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A professor of organizational behavior explains why strategic thinking is key to taking an idea to the next level.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Jesper Sørensen | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

This year marks the 10th anniversary of our work on organizational DNA. Since our first article in 2004, we’ve analyzed more than 220,000 online surveys in which people describe their company’s personality and performance. Amid the turbulence of changing business environments and personnel, 10 precepts have remained useful, for empowering people and unlocking any organization’s potential.

Content: Article | Authors: Gary L. Neilson, Jaime Estupiñán | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Organizational Behavior

For all the talk about creating better incentive plans for employees, many proposed ideas are still off the mark. One reason is that managers tend to ignore insights from academic research, while academics do not always focus on practical applications. Chicago Booth Clinical Professor Michael J. Gibbs offers insights that bridge academic and practical perspectives.

Content: Article | Authors: Michael Gibbs, Vanessa Sumo | Source: Capital Ideas | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

Just imagine, a few centuries ago, who would have thought that everyone will be able to read and write? Now, today, we need risk literacy. I believe if we teach young people, children, the mathematics of uncertainty, statistical thinking, instead of only the mathematics of certainty – trigonometry, geometry, all beautiful things that most of us never need – then we can have a new … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Gerd Gigerenzer | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Decision Making, Risk Management

Honesty isn’t always the best policy when it comes to performance reviews.

Content: Article | Authors: Edmund L. Andrews, Iván Marinovic | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

I’m sour on the word empowerment and I’m sour on empowerment programs. To me, saying we need an empowerment program is like saying we need a swimming program. The implication is that swimming isn’t a natural occurring behavior for our people. So, what we are saying when we say we need an empowerment program is that the fundamental way we run our organization is dis-empowering, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: David Marquet | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Culture eats strategy for breakfast, and it’s far easier to keep the right culture on track than get the wrong one back on track.

Content: Quotation | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Culture, Management, Organizational Behavior

In most cases, “My door is always open” isn’t really an invitation to speak up. It’s a cop-out. It makes the boss feel good but puts the onus entirely on the employees. You might as well say, “You find the problems and then take all the risk of interrupting my day and confronting me about them.” How many people have taken you up on that … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Jason Fried | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Many factors help determine the health of a company and performance is only one of them. Just because your company is performing well doesn’t mean that there aren’t unhealthy symptoms elsewhere. Learn to diagnose your company and implement the right strategy for its health and success.

Content: Article | Authors: Colin Price, Scott Keller | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Titles definitely come with a cost. The best ideas are bottom-up, not top-down. But in most companies, the ideas come from the top, and hierarchy can mean artificial authority wins, not the best idea.

Content: Quotation | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Performance incentives may encourage employees to deliver but when it comes to innovation it’s by no means certain they trigger the best results.

Content: Article | Authors: Philipp Meyer-Doyle, Sunkee Lee | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Innovation, Management, Organizational Behavior

Organizations must have systems in place to allow temporary assignments, and opportunities for people to take on work that’s not part of their official jobs, in order to keep people from hoarding talent or blocking its development. Leader development won’t succeed if the organization sets it up to be the responsibility solely of the talent management function within HR. It needs to be the joint … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Cynthia McCauley | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior, Training & Development

The INSEAD professor shows how people can communicate across cultures.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Christie Rizk, Erin Meyer | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: International, Organizational Behavior

We have become much more productive—output per hour worked increased more than fourfold between 1950 and 2012, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But the amount we work hasn’t fallen anywhere near as fast. In the United States, the average working year went from 1,963 hours in 1950 to 1,790 hours last year, a drop of less than 10%.

This has prompted some people to … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Dave Nussbaum | Source: Capital Ideas | Subjects: Economics, Organizational Behavior

How do you decide whether or not to hire someone? Can you predict how successful they would be? How do you know if they’ll stay? How useful is data in human resources as opposed to “trusting your gut”? These are questions a lot of companies would like better answers to, considering the critical importance of people to a business’s success and the high costs associated … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

The Internet is generating “groupthink” inside groups and greater conflict between groups. Here, Chief Executive details the three types of groupthink and how CEOs can resist groupthink in their organizations.

Content: Article | Author: Robert Lawrence Kuhn | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Every relationship of two or more people is based on shared objectives. They needn’t agree on how to bring it about and may not both take action to effect the change. Cooperative relationships are those where both parties agree on how to share the benefits and costs of creating change. Competitive relationships, by contrast, are those in which you don’t agree on how to allocate … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Derek Lidow | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Negotiation, Organizational Behavior

In Kenya, a Stanford researcher shows that ethnic diversity can spur productivity.

Content: Article | Authors: Edmund Andrews, Sangick Jeon | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Organizational Behavior

In the constant push to get everyone going in the same direction on the job—an admittedly critical component of leadership—we’ve fallen into the trap of valuing alignment over insight. What’s the point of having everyone rowing in perfect unison if you’re going the wrong way?

Content: Quotation | Author: Sydney Finkelstein | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Leadership, Mergers & Acquisitions, Organizational Behavior

How an organization makes its people-related decisions has a huge impact on its success or failure. But traditionally, these decisions have largely been based on intuition and biases and therefore have been prone to error. But now, companies are starting to use data and sophisticated analysis in issues such as recruiting, compensation and performance evaluation because they believe it can help in better decision making. … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Adam Grant, Cade Massey | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior