40 Thought Leaders found for subject: Organizational Behavior

Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer shares advice for gaining power through resources, reputation, and relationships.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Jeffrey Pfeffer, Simon London | Source: “McKinsey Quarterly” | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Power / Authority

Professor Jochen Menges on the ways companies can develop well-being initiatives that genuinely make people feel better.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Jochen Menges, Laura W. Geller | Source: “strategy+business” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

Carnegie Mellon professor Taya Cohen explains the connection between moral character and workplace performance

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Laura W. Geller, Taya Cohen | Source: “strategy+business” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

Freek Vermeulen explains why unhelpful practices go unnoticed and suggests how rooting them out can help innovation.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Freek Vermeulen, Jeremy Grant | Source: “strategy+business” | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Organizations are more likely to innovate and thrive when they unleash the potential of individuals and the power of self-organizing teams, says the online retailer’s CEO.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Aaron De Smet, Chris Gagnon, Tony Hsieh | Source: “McKinsey Quarterly” | Subjects: Innovation, Management, Organizational Behavior | Company: Zappos.com

Michael Mankins, Bain & Company partner and head of the firm’s Organization practice, explains how organizations unintentionally fail to manage their employees’ time and energy. He also lays out what managers can do to reduce what he calls organizational drag.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Michael C. Mankins, Sarah Green Carmichael | Source: “Harvard Business Review” | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Bestselling author and Wharton professor Adam Grant has spent years researching and interviewing originals. In this interview, Grant explains why it’s imperative for early-stage companies to hire originals. He shares how he singles them out and delves into recommended questions and exercises that can help startups find and hire them.

Content: Thought Leader | Author: Adam Grant | Source: “First Round Review” | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

As the director of People Analytics at Google for the last decade, Brian Welle’s world revolves around data. He has found that those hard, cold numbers can, when used properly, uncover the key attributes that make people better managers and team members. Once identified, the attributes can then be cultivated and instilled to boost performance. Welle spoke recently with Cade Massey, Wharton practice professor of … [ Read more ]

Content: Thought Leader | Author: Brian Welle | Source: “Knowledge@Wharton” | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Teamwork | Company: Google

The NYU social psychologist says that the ethical risks for a business depend on its ingrained cultural attitudes.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Ann Graham, Jonathan Haidt | Source: “strategy+business” | Subjects: Ethics, Organizational Behavior

Our society is still compartmentalizing “work” and “life,” looking for a way to even the scales, when we should be rethinking the perspective that values time as the ultimate capital. In systems based on such a mind-set, success comes to those who seem to be working the hardest, because they are always accessible. People cling to an outmoded view that work should be done by … [ Read more ]

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Laura W. Geller, Lotte Bailyn | Source: “strategy+business” | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

A pioneer in mindfulness research says that companies can promote innovation and their own rejuvenation by setting the right context.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, Ellen Langer | Source: “strategy+business” | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal 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

The professor at Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management explains the root of unethical behavior.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Jessica Kennedy, Laura W. Geller | Source: “strategy+business” | Subjects: Ethics, Organizational Behavior

The Harvard Business School professor explains how leaders can harness collective genius to achieve innovation success.

Content: Thought Leader | Author: Linda A. Hill | Source: “strategy+business” | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior

Data and privacy, social network analysis, sensors, wearable computing, and location intelligence: Name a technological trend that’s revolutionizing commerce and society, and Sandy Pentland and MIT’s Media Lab were likely doing it before anyone else was even writing about it.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Sandy Pentland, William D. Eggers | Source: “Deloitte Review” | Subject: Organizational Behavior

The Darden School of Business professor describes a new framework for predicting conflict outcomes.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Kristin Behfar, Laura W. Geller | Source: “strategy+business” | Subject: Organizational Behavior

The Stanford professor explains how social distance (construal-level theory) affects how people respond to feedback.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Laura W. Geller, Nir Halevy | Source: “strategy+business” | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

The Wharton professor says moments when you wipe the slate clean can help you meet your goals.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Katherine L. Milkman, Laura W. Geller | Source: “strategy+business” | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

The Stanford professor’s latest research explores the practices that enable companies to scale what they do best.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Paul Michelman, Robert I. Sutton | Source: “strategy+business” | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

The head of MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence explains how the social intelligence factor is critical for business success.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, Thomas Malone | Source: “strategy+business” | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior