Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Duke University    Harvard Business School    University of Washington   

Open communication is extremely important; it must exist for both employee input and successful team performance to take place. But does leader power diminish open communication? Through three studies, the…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Deloitte Consulting LLP    MIT Sloan School of Management   

How are managers today using social media tools and how important are those tools becoming to their organizations? In collaboration with Deloitte, MIT Sloan Management Review conducted a survey of…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: IMD   

This is the critical turning point in a manager’s career; the time when they move from leading a function to leading an enterprise for the first time. Conducting an extensive…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: University of Virginia Darden Business School   

In many organizations, collaborative innovation teams are utilized to manage new product development initiatives. This involves different types of managers (marketing, operations, engineering, etc.) working together to allocate resources to…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: INSEAD   

Any one of us can fall prey to ethical fading or cognitive bias and any one of us can make an inappropriate decision without realizing. These are not the sole…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)   

The global growth of a company depends on its developing effective leaders. Questions, such as where and how are the most important ‘lessons of leadership’ learned, and what are those…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Kellogg School of Management   

Rivalries in the workplace can be destructive to both personal career growth and group success. Many attempts to reverse rivalries fail because of the complex way emotion and reason operate…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Harvard Business School   

Do managers at all levels routinely - and unwittingly - undermine the meaningfulness of work for their direct subordinates through everyday words and actions? Of all the events that can…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Montpellier Business School    Boston University Questrom School of Business   

Truly democratizing knowledge requires an open organization where employees can deliberate, argue, compete and collaborate horizontally across fields of expertise. One possible solution to this end is the internal knowledge…