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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?

Social Functionalist Frameworks for Judgment and Choice: Intuitive Politicians, Theologians, And Prosecutors

Philip E. Tetlock

The politician, the theologian and the prosecutor: three personas to better understand and analyze our strategies for choosing and decision-making (and those of others!).

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New Tools for Negotiators

Tera Allas, Nikos Georgiades

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Harnessing the Science of Persuasion

Robert B. Cialdini

On what levers can you lean to obtain the adhesion of others to your ideas?

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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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How to kill creativity

Teresa M. Amabile

The critical importance of intrinsic motivation, and its impact on getting employees to give their creative best.

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An interview with Chris Argyris

Joel Kurtzman

Chris Argyris, Professor of Organizational Behavior at Harvard University, warns against the dangers of corporate cultures in which people avoid conflict rather than tell the truth.

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When Executives Burn Out

Harry Levinson

A foundational article on the phenomenon of burnout.

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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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Brinkmanship in Business

Bruce D. Henderson

A close look at the balance of power in negotiations.

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