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Personal Development

What skills to develop to best hold your role as a manager or leader? What tools to rely on? What subjects to put into practice?

Make Sure Everyone on Your Team Sees Learning as Part of Their Job

Kristi Hedges

How to encourage your staff members to take ownership of their professional development.

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The Surprising Power of Questions

Alison Wood Brooks, Leslie K. John

Knowing how to ask the right questions is one of the most unrecognized leadership skills. The authors offer some advice on how to cultivate this ability.

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4 Strategies for Overcoming Distraction

Chris Bailey

Four strategies to remedy the new “disease of the century”, the loss of attention.

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How to Overcome Your Fear of Failure

Susan Peppercorn

Changing our rapport to failure to dare move into action despite the risk of setback.

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The Business Case for Curiosity

Francesca Gino

A plea reminding us of curiosity’s numerous benefits to companies and indicating pathways to removing the obstacles and misconceptions that can hinder it.

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A New Way to Become More Open-Minded

Shane Snow

A self-positioning test to evaluate your degree of open-mindedness and your capacity for self-questioning, complete with recommendations to strengthen them.

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Workaholism – Does Working More Impact Productivity?

K.R. Subramanian

An in-depth examination of the research devoted to the relationship between the length of working days and productivity, whose conclusion is unequivocal: beyond a certain threshold, working more becomes counter-productive.

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To Handle Increased Stress, Build Your Resilience

Ama Marston, Stephanie Marston

In this article, you will among others find some suggestions for changing your perspective on situations with the aim of reducing the adverse effects of stress.

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Your Team Is Brainstorming All Wrong

Art Markman

Go beyond the usual limits of brainstorming techniques.

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A Study Shows How to Find New Ideas Inside and Outside the Company

Linus Dahlander, Siobhan O’Mahony

The conditions to take full advantage of our market intelligence systems in internal innovation.

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