Idea posted: March 2023

Institutions: Simon Fraser University, Beedie School of Business    University College London   

How does one listen well? The answer—as revealed in an exhaustive review of the listening research published between 2000 and 2021—is often built on the speaker’s perception. For example, some…

Idea posted: March 2023

Institutions: University of Cambridge Judge Business School    Institute for Management & Innovation at the University of Toronto Mississauga   

The importance of a group’s culture cannot be overstated: generally, the group’s culture defines how members of a group are expected to think, feel, and behave. Because culture is typically…

Idea posted: February 2023

Institutions: NYU Stern School of Business    Tuck School of Business   

Business projects, opportunities, or endeavours typically involve conjunctive risk—that is, the endeavour will succeed only if multiple, uncertain events occur. If just one of these required events fail to occur,…

Idea posted: February 2023

Institutions: IÉSEG School of Management    Bocconi University Department of Management & Technology   

Knowledge acquired from contacts in the social networks of employees can influence and impact their creativity—contributing, for example, insights, perspectives, and supporting material to help them generate innovative ideas for…

Idea posted: February 2023

Institutions: University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business    Warwick University Business School   

Often treated as a joke or as a facetious explanation for unexpected behaviour, the mid-life crisis is in fact real, according to a detailed report from a global team of…

Idea posted: February 2023

Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)   

Building on internal and external research, the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) has developed a framework that not only measures the impact of leadership development programs but also reveals the…

Idea posted: January 2023

Institutions: University of Reading    St. John’s University   

Foreign companies can be at a disadvantage when competing against domestic companies strengthened by informal networks developed over years and even lifetimes. In Korea, for example, two types of informal…

Idea posted: January 2023

Institutions: RMIT School of Management    St. John’s University    National Taiwan University   

Past studies have demonstrated the power of humor in strengthening relationships between leaders and followers. In the early stages of these relationships, the power position of leaders requires them be…

Idea posted: January 2023

Institutions: MIT Sloan School of Management   

While new technology is intended to make work more efficient and effective, it often helps the professionals in a company while increasing the workload and decreasing the autonomy of assistants…