Failing by design [0.03%]
设计通病
Rita Gunther McGrath
Rita Gunther McGrath
It's hardly news that business leaders work in increasingly uncertain environments, where failures are bound to be more common than successes. Yet if you ask executives how well, on a scale of one to 10, their organizations learn from failu...
Francesca Gino,Gary P Pisano
Francesca Gino
What causes so many companies that once dominated their industries to slide into decline? In this article, two Harvard Business School professors argue that such firms lose their touch because success breeds failure by impeding learning at ...
Ethical breakdowns [0.03%]
伦理滑坡
Max H Bazerman,Ann E Tenbrunsel
Max H Bazerman
Companies are spending a great deal of time and money to install codes of ethics, ethics training, compliance programs, and in-house watchdogs. If these efforts worked, the money would be well spent. But unethical behavior appears to be on ...
Amy C Edmondson
Amy C Edmondson
Many executives believe that all failure is bad (although it usually provides Lessons) and that Learning from it is pretty straightforward. The author, a professor at Harvard Business School, thinks both beliefs are misguided. In organizati...
C Nathan DeWall
C Nathan DeWall
THE FINDING: Daily doses of acetaminophen alleviate hurt feelings and reduce neural activity related to the pain of social rejection. The research: The Un...
Alison Beard
Alison Beard
Stop holding yourself back [0.03%]
别再束缚自己了
Anne Morriss,Robin J Ely,Frances X Frei
Anne Morriss
After working with hundreds of leaders in a wide variety of organizations and in countries all over the globe, the authors found one very clear pattern: When it comes to meeting their leadership potential, many people unintentionally get in...
Linda A Hill,Kent Lineback
Linda A Hill
Private moments of doubt and fear come even to managers who have spent years on the job. Any number of events can trigger them: an initiative going poorly, a lukewarm performance review, a daunting new assignment. HBS professor Hill and exe...
Vijay Govindarajan,Chris Trimble
Vijay Govindarajan
Fending off new competitors is a perennial struggle for established companies. Govindarajan and Trimble, of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, explain why: Many corporations become too comfortable with their existing business models and n...
Francis J Flynn
Francis J Flynn