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Most developmental psychologists agree that what differentiates leaders is not so much their philosophy of leadership, their personality, or their style of management. Rather, it’s their ...

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What consumers truly value can be difficult to pin down and psychologically complicated. But universal building blocks of value do exist, creating opportunities for companies to improve their ...

Reprint: R0410B Employers are beginning to realize that they face a nearly invisible but significant drain on productivity: presenteeism, the problem of workers’ being on the job but, because of ...

Firms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors, product developers focus too much on building ...

Reprint: R1207D No sales force consists entirely of stars; sales staffs are usually made up mainly of solid perfomers, with smaller groups of laggards and rainmakers. Though most compensation ...

What exactly is a digital transformation, and how can you lead one successfully? Often guiding a digital transformation requires rethinking how your company creates value, its strategy, and the ...

Understanding bias in hiring algorithms and ways to mitigate it requires us to explore how predictive technologies work at each step of the hiring process. Though they commonly share a backbone of ...

While change has always been difficult, we have now entered an area in which it is continuous rather than episodic. Employees are tired and morale, productivity, and innovation all suffer as a ...