62 Posts found for Source: The New York Times

Successful bright people rarely experience failure, and so they don’t learn how to learn from that failure. They, instead, commit the fundamental attribution error, which is if something good happens, it’s because I’m a genius. If something bad happens, it’s because someone’s an idiot or I didn’t get the resources or the market moved.

Content: Quotation | Author: Laszlo Bock | Source: The New York Times | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

This is the sad reality in workplaces around the world: Women help more but benefit less from it. In keeping with deeply held gender stereotypes, we expect men to be ambitious and results-oriented, and women to be nurturing and communal. When a man offers to help, we shower him with praise and rewards. But when a woman helps, we feel less indebted. She’s communal, right? … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Adam Grant, Sheryl Sandberg | Source: The New York Times | Subject: Women in Business

Your shopping habits reveal even the most personal information—like when you’re going to have a baby.

Content: Article | Author: Charles Duhigg | Source: The New York Times | Subjects: Industry Specific, Marketing / Sales

According to Google’s Senior Vice President of People Operations, Laszlo Bock, the five traits most predictive of success in the workplace are:

1. General cognitive ability (not I.Q. but learning ability; the ability to process on the fly, to pull together disparate bits of information)
2. Leadership – in particular emergent leadership as opposed to traditional leadership. Traditional leadership is, were you president of the chess club?…We don’t care.

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Content: Article | Author: Laszlo Bock | Source: The New York Times | Subject: Human Resources

In many M.B.A. programs, lifestyle experiences are gaining on academic ones in importance.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Hannah Seligson | Source: The New York Times | Subject: About the MBA Degree

Popular culture insists our jobs are drudgery, and one survey recently made headlines by reporting that fewer than a third of American workers felt engaged; that is praised, encouraged, cared for and several other gauges seemingly aimed at measuring how transcendently fulfilled one is at work.

Those criteria are too high for most marriages, let alone jobs. What if we ask something simpler: “All things considered, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: The New York Times | Subjects: Human Resources, Work

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IN early 2009, statisticians inside the Googleplex embarked on a plan code-named Project Oxygen. Their mission was to build better bosses. So, as only a data-mining giant like Google can do, it began analyzing performance reviews, feedback surveys and nominations for top-manager awards. They correlated phrases, words, praise and complaints. Later that year, the “people analytics” teams at the company produced what might be called … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Adam Bryant | Source: The New York Times | Subjects: Best Practices, Management, Organizational Behavior | Company: Google

Business schools are realizing that students need to learn how to think critically and creatively every bit as much as they needed to learn finance or accounting.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Lane Wallace | Source: The New York Times | Subject: About the MBA Degree

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You know what the efficient market hypothesis is, don’t you? It’s a theory that grew out of the University of Chicago’s finance department, and long held sway in academic circles, that the stock market can’t be beaten on any consistent basis because all available information is already built into stock prices. The stock market, in other words, is rational.

In the last decade, the efficient market … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Joe Nocera | Source: The New York Times | Subject: Finance

An interview with Greg Brenneman, chairman of CCMP Capital.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Adam Bryant, Greg Brenneman | Source: The New York Times

There’s a great saying: “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” I find that in business a lot people take the time to write the really long letter, but they don’t take time to write the short one, and it even applies to doing investments.

Content: Quotation | Author: Greg Brenneman | Source: The New York Times | Subject: Work

While most people have never heard of them, search funds are attracting increasing attention as a way for small businesses to beat the usual odds of success, even in the midst of a deepening recession.

Content: Article | Author: Brent Bowers | Source: The New York Times | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Finance

Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.

Content: Quotation | Author: Warren Buffett | Source: The New York Times | Subjects: Investing, Wisdom

The success of the Wharton School’s Stewart D. Friedman, a management professor, illustrates the rise of leadership educators who have tapped into a desire by both students and established entrepreneurs for more integration of their careers and personal lives.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Marci Alboher | Source: The New York Times | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

It’s a pickle of a paradox: As our knowledge and expertise increase, our creativity and ability to innovate tend to taper off. Why? Because the walls of the proverbial box in which we think are thickening along with our experience.

Content: Related Content | Author: Janet Rae-Dupree | Source: The New York Times | Subject: Innovation

Increasingly, young people on the fast track consider an M.B.A., once an essential rung on the way to the top of the corporate ladder, a waste of money and time — time that could be spent making money.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Louise Story | Source: The New York Times | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Conventional marketing wisdom holds that predicting success in cultural markets is mostly a matter of anticipating the preferences of the millions of individual people who participate in them. From this common-sense observation, it follows that if the experts could only figure out what it was about, say, the music, songwriting and packaging of Norah Jones that appealed to so many fans, they ought to be … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: The New York Times | Subjects: Customer Related, Marketing / Sales

As anyone who follows the business of culture is aware, the profits of cultural industries depend disproportionately on the occasional outsize success – a blockbuster movie, a best-selling book or a superstar artist – to offset the many investments that fail dismally. What may be less clear to casual observers is why professional editors, studio executives and talent managers, many of whom have a lifetime … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Duncan J. Watts | Source: The New York Times | Subject: Marketing / Sales