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Jeffrey Pfeffer writes a short, but spot on piece regarding the lack of competitive fire in today’s youth and it’s implications: Over the years it has gotten more challenging to teach organizational power and politics to my Stanford students. Acquiring power means getting ahead, and they now grow up in a world that seemingly eschews [...]
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Broadway Danny Rose is one of Woody Allen’s lesser known films, but I’d argue one of his best. I was reminded of the movie the other day when I was thinking about various non-verbal displays of strength in nature. In the clip below (first 30 seconds), two men are “tearing money”–literally taking cold hard cash and [...]
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Bob Sutton points to some interesting research on the impact of culture on negotiations: There is a stream of research on negotiation that shows the strategic expression of anger is effective, apparently because it is taken as a sign you are “tough” and thus leads your intimidated opponent to make concessions. A new study by Hajo [...]
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via Marginal Revolution:
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Signaling is the act of conveying meaningful information about oneself to another party. Typically when we talk about signals we refer to intentional behavior on the part of an actor. For example, if the leader of Country A makes a public commitment to defend Country B the leader of Country A is communicating their “type” [...]
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TEDGlobal2010 is in full swing and the first talk available for viewing by those of us not lucky enough to be there live is by renowned author Matt Ridley. Ridley’s talk is titled “When Ideas Have Sex”, and the gist of it is that knowledge is advanced by the recombination or mutation of ideas. This is a [...]
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For those interested in the smart and witty discussion of economics (behavioral and otherwise) do yourself a favor and check out Jodi Begg’s Economists Do It With Models (the title says it all). Beggs is a Ph.D. Candidate at Harvard and focuses on behavioral economics (incentives, generally). She has a great sense of humor and [...]
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Over at his blog at HBR, Scott Anthony suggests that a better way to identify future leaders in a company is to provide the brightest stars with smaller, more ambiguous challenges instead of larger, but familiar, assignments: Instead of giving up-and-comers larger assignments, consider intentionally giving them smaller, more ambiguous ones. Have them crack into [...]
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Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
The Lords of Strategy
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Alpha Dogs: The Americans Who Turned Political Spin into a Global Business
The Bottom Billon
