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When star performers target rivals, a team loses
23 hours ago • by Linus Dahlander , Henning Piezunka, Arne Thomas in Leadership • 9 min read • 
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When contests turn personal, employees can make high-risk choices that hurt the organization. Linus Dahlander, Henning Piezunka, and Arne Thomas suggest ways to identify and reverse the damage....
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Time to shift from artificial intelligence to artificial integrity
The quicksilver evolution of AI technologies is opening extraordinary opportunities but leaves human beings exposed to risks. Is it time we developed artificial integrity to safeguard fairness and security even as we...
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Engaging long-term institutional investors and financial analysts can curb excesses of managerial short-termism and boost corporate social performance, argue Stephen Smulowitz, Didier Cossin, and Abraham Hongze Lu. ...
The new ‘pandemic’: Tackling the crisis of wellbeing at work
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This Book Club discussion explored actionable steps for individuals and companies to address the 'crisis of well-being'....
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How good leaders can be bad role models
Typically, negative experiences hit with about four times the force of positive experiences. Critical feedback hits most of us harder than reinforcing feedback. Here we consider three mysteries of negativity bias and...
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