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Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman and psychologist Gary Klein debate the power and perils of intuition for senior executives.

Content: Article | Authors: Daniel Kahneman, Gary Klein | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Recently, Bob Sutton posted a list of 12 Things Good Bosses Believe. Now he’s following up by delving into each one of them. This post is about the third belief: “Having ambitious and well-defined goals is important, but it is useless to think about them much. My job is to focus on the small wins that enable my people to make a little progress every … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Robert I. Sutton | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Organization design can provide effective and practical resolution of many stubborn strategy and business-execution issues. If a redesign is to work, executives need to recognize that all three elements of design—structure, individual capabilities, and roles and collaboration—are essential. Indeed, there is a dynamic interplay among them. When structure, individual capabilities, and roles and collaboration are in alignment—and tightly linked with a company’s strategy and sources … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Andrew Toma, Julie Kilmann, Kuba Zielinski, Michael Shanahan | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

The test of a good, powerful piece is when people say, “But it’s so obvious.” You agonize and agonize and then somebody says, “But it’s obvious.” When I was younger, I used to get so irritated by that. Now I think it’s the highest compliment you can get.

Content: Quotation | Author: C.K. Prahalad | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Communication

Leaders are increasingly finding themselves in situations where they need help from subordinates, and in which subordinates are asking for help in areas where leaders are not experts. To manage either situation effectively, a leader will have to develop a degree of humility and specific process skills. Readers will learn how to achieve those difficult goals in this article by the dean of organizational behavior. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Edgar H. Schein | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

To change an organization from within, it helps to understand four basic circulatory systems, analogous to the channels of communication in a living body.

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Lofty principles matter much less than we think in determining our moral behavior says Professor Benoît Monin. We’re more likely to be guided by whether we feel we are a good or bad person or whether we feel others around us are good or bad.

Content: Article | Author: Benoît Monin | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Organizational Behavior

In every company, there are really two organizations at work: the informal and the formal. High-performance companies mobilize their informal organizations while maintaining and adding formal structures, balancing the two.

Content: Article | Authors: Jon R. Katzenbach, Zia Khan | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior | Company: Campbell Soup Company

UCLA professor Noah Goldstein on scientifically proven ways to be persuasive

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Noah J. Goldstein | Source: UCLA | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

By controlling situations that create conflicts of interest, we can combat frauds and scandals better.

Content: Article | Author: Dan Ariely | Source: Forbes | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Robert Sutton has come to conclude that all the technique and behavior coaching in the world won’t make a boss great if that boss doesn’t also have a certain mindset. His readings of peer-reviewed studies, plus his more idiosyncratic experience studying and consulting to managers in many settings, have led him to identify some key beliefs that are held by the best bosses — and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Robert I. Sutton | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Communication, Organizational Behavior

The metaphor of social theater comes into play in that the leader has a choice of what role to play once he or she is thrust into a helping situation. There are three possible roles: 1) The leader can be an “expert” who provides information, actually does the job for the subordinate, or in other ways displays superior knowledge or skill; 2) The leader can … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Edgar H. Schein | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Thoughts on the 50th anniversary of one of the most influential contributions to management theory.

Content: Article | Author: Matthew Stewart | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Organizational Behavior

In the only scientifically valid study of the motivations of a cross-section of the entire U.S. workforce, researchers unveiled the secret of why leaders…have been able to create working conditions that effectively tap into the deep wellspring of worker motivation. This 2002 survey of 3,000 workers, undertaken by the U.S. Census Bureau, found that there are two main sources of employee motivation, loyalty, commitment, and … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: James O’Toole | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Ethics, Management, Motivation

This collection of articles explores many of the common people-related integration challenges organizations are likely to face during an M&A transaction, and offers recommendations to help executive leadership get it right for Day One and beyond. There are five sections:

Section 1: Due Diligence
Section 2: Integration Management
Section 3: Integration
Section 4: Post-Merger Integration
Section 5: Divestiture

Content: Article | Source: Deloitte | Subjects: Human Resources, Mergers & Acquisitions, Organizational Behavior

The heat of the moment is a powerful, dangerous thing. We all know this. If we’re happy, we may be overly generous. Maybe we leave a big tip, or buy a boat. If we’re irritated, we may snap. Maybe we rifle off that nasty e-mail to the boss, or punch someone. And for that fleeting second, we feel great. But the regret—and the consequences of … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Dan Ariely | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: Organizational Behavior

We all want and need creativity in our personal lives and at work. But how can we nurture, encourage and use creativity successfully? Patrick Harris offers some suggestions.

Content: Article | Author: Patrick Harris | Source: Global Focus | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior

Conventional wisdom: startups don’t have the time or dollars to invest in training. Training is only for big companies who can afford it, both cash- and time-wise. Ben Horowitz picks a fight with this conventional wisdom by describing why and how even startups should invest in training. No company operates so flawlessly that the right training at the right time doesn’t make a huge, measurable … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Ben Horowitz | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Michael Doyle, [who] invented the practice of “meeting facilitation” in the 1970s…saw that human beings did their best work in groups of seven to fifteen. Most corporate boards fit in that sweet spot. Unfortunately, he believed that most group problems arise from misapplying power, content, and process. Executive groups, he found, focus overwhelmingly on content (such as PowerPoint presentations and board books) and rarely on … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Michael Doyle | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Teamwork