Learning

Why Leaders Don’t Learn From Success

Francesca Gino, Gary P. Pisano

How to draw lessons from success while avoiding traps of complacency and misinterpretation.

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''I think of My Failures as a Gift''

Karen Dillon

An interview with Alan George Lafley, CEO of Procter & Gamble, on the role of failure in business success.

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The Simplest Way to Reboot Your Brain

Robert Stickgold

A synopsis of the recent research on the importance of sleep for proper cerebral operations… and a documented plea for micro-naps at work!

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The hard work of failure analysis

Advice on developing the organization's ability to analyze failure.

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The quest for resilience

Bounce back following a strategic failure.

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Gurus in the Garage

Dorothy Leonard, Walter Swap

Characteristics of a good mentor based on the profile of thirty mentors from Silicon Valley.

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Teaching Smart People How to Learn

Chris Argyris

A timeless article on the spontaneous—and often unconscious—defensive reflexes that explain why it is so hard to learn from our mistakes.

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Skilled Incompetence

Chris Argyris

How their propension to avoid conflict and to hold onto their expertise lead the best people to a real inability to learn.

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Making Learning a Part of Everyday Work

Josh Bersin, Marc Zao-Sanders

Integrating training in the daily work flow permits to anchor a continuous learning attitude.

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SurveyMonkey’s CEO on Creating a Culture of Curiosity

Zander Lurie

How can you encourage your team members to show greater curiosity in their daily lives? A case study based on the example of online survey company SurveyMonkey.

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