Personal Effectiveness

Recovering from information overload

Derek Dean, Caroline Webb

Reviewing our working habits to fight effectively against the surrounding information frenzy.

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Are You Wasting Your 10,000 Hours?

David Burkus

Do we always capitalize fully on the time we devote to learning and practicing? Not necessarily!

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Train Your Brain to Focus

Paul Hammerness, Margaret Moore

Rather than try to improve efficiency and performance by multitasking, we are better off developing our ability to focus.

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Coming Through When It Matters Most

Heidi K. Gardner

Just when teams should be most innovative and look to the experts, they often prefer play it safe with conventional and sometimes inappropriate solutions.

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Creativity Under the Gun

Teresa Amabile, Constance N. Hadley, Steven J. Kramer

Contrary to popular belief, time pressure does not stimulate creativity. To the contrary, it has a sustainably negative effect on team creativity.

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Creativity Under the Gun

Teresa Amabile, Constance Noonan Hadley, Steven J. Kramer

A study about the negative correlation between pressure on delays and creativity.

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6 Ways to Turn Managers into Coaches Again

Keith Ferrazzi

Managers do not always have the time to undertake the coaching of all their staff themselves. It is better to try to develop a culture of coaching and mentoring within your teams.

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The 3 Challenges Every New CEO Faces

Neal H. Kissel, Patrick Foley

The learnings from interviews with around twenty leaders, which aim to identify the challenges to anticipate when reaching a general manager’s position.

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How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist

Amy Webb

Thinking the future by envisaging successive time horizons. 

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How functional leaders become CEOs

Michael Birshan, Thomas Meakin, Kurt Strovink

Some advice for young leaders from functional departments to establish their legitimacy.

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