Use a Task Map to Improve Your Team’s Performance

Use a Task Map to Improve Your Team’s Performance:

Allison Rimm, hbr.org

If you’ve noticed your team is functioning unevenly and its esprit de corps isn’t what you’d hoped, it’s time for you to ask yourself whether your people are deployed optimally.

Employees’ skills and interests can evolve over time, as can the go…

Why So Many Emerging Giants Flame Out

Why So Many Emerging Giants Flame Out:

HBR IdeaCast, hbr.org

John Jullens of Booz & Company says multinationals from China and other emerging markets must learn to innovate and manage quality while remaining nimble. For more, read “How Emerging Giants Can Take on the World.”

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It Matters Which Avatar You Choose When Gaming

It Matters Which Avatar You Choose When Gaming:

The Daily Stat, hbr.org

Research participants who had played a 5-minute computer game using a Superman avatar were subsequently kinder to other people, and those who had played as the evil Voldemort were less kind, say Gunwoo Yoon and Patrick T. Vargas of the…

To Get Honest Feedback, Leaders Need to Ask

To Get Honest Feedback, Leaders Need to Ask:

Jim Kouzes, hbr.org

“The only way to discover your strengths,” wrote Peter Drucker, “is through feedback analysis.” No senior leader would dispute this as a logical matter. But nor do they act on it. Most leaders don’t really want honest feedback, don’t ask for it, a…