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The Most Undervalued Employee in Your Business
Inc.: Employees who tell it like it is without any concern for your feelings might get on your nerves a bit–but they are the most undervalued people in business. That’s according to Adam Grant, author of the book Give
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The Surprising Problem of Too Much Talent
Scientific American: Whether you’re the owner of the Dallas Cowboys or captain of the playground dodge ball team, the goal in picking players is the same: Get the top talent. Hearts have been broken, allegiances
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One Scary Boss Can Spook the Whole Office
Coping with an abusive boss can have major impacts on employee well-being, and research has even shown that a bad boss can make people sick, leading to increased rates of heart attack, high blood pressure
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Study: If Your Team Has Too Many Superstars, Performance Will Suffer
Entrepreneur: When hiring employees, conventional wisdom dictates that one should always try and select the superstars, those men and women who excel at their job so thoroughly they put the average human to shame. After
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Better Teamwork Comes From Facing Challenges
From basketball to brain surgery, people can accomplish more working together as a team than they ever could by themselves. As Aristotle famously put it, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
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Google Scientist Searches the Workplace
Are managers really necessary? Using her workplace as a laboratory, Google’s Jennifer Kurkoski seeks answers to that question and other organizational puzzles.
