By: Adam Grant and Allison Sweet Grant The New York Times Kids — and parents — need to understand that there’s a big difference between selflessness and generosity. Like many new parents, when our first child was born, we were delighted to receive gift boxes of tiny pajama sets, monogrammed…Read More
By: Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman, Laura J. Zarrow, Kasandra Brabaw, Dena M. Gromet, Reb Rebele, Cade Massey, Angela L. Duckworth, Adam Grant Harvard Business Review Virtually all Fortune 500 companies offer diversity training to their employees. Yet surprisingly few of them have measured its impact. That’s unfortunate, considering…Read More
By: Stephanie J. Creary, Mary-Hunter (“Mae”) McDonnell, Sakshi Ghai, Jared Scruggs Harvard Business Review On January 1, California law said that all locally headquartered publicly traded companies must have at least one female director by 2020. While new to the U.S., mandates to increase gender diversity on corporate boards are common elsewhere.…Read More
By Cade Massey MIT Sloan Management Review I was told recently about a people analytics group that prided itself on its independence. They did not mingle with operations, they never made site visits, and they did not explain their models. They aspired to be the alternative view, uncorrupted by “the way…Read More
By Matthew Bidwell and Federica De Stefano MIT Sloan Management Review Careers are much more complex than they used to be, even within organizations. Now that companies have replaced rigid hierarchies with flatter, more fluid team-based structures to promote agile ways of working, they have also made it much harder for…Read More
By Angela Duckworth MIT Sloan Management Review The act of answering survey questions can increase awareness, which opens the door to development. “Know thyself.” — Socrates I’ve been studying grit for 15 years, but the notion that some people stick with things much longer than others is not at all…Read More
By Reb Rebele MIT Sloan Management Review We need a more nuanced approach to predicting job performance. Have you ever taken an aptitude or work personality test? Maybe it was part of a job application, one of the many ways your prospective employer tried to figure out whether you were…Read More
By Adam Grant MIT Sloan Management Review Confirming what people already believe can help organizations overcome barriers to change. A few years ago, the people analytics experts at Google stunned me with one of their recommendations to managers. They had been studying how to onboard new hires effectively. After running…Read More
By Cade Massey Behavioral Scientist This week the Cleveland Browns will decide which, if any, of the top quarterback prospects to acquire with the first pick in the NFL draft. There are four leading contenders, and the team has been evaluating them in detail for more than a year. They…Read More
By Scott Judd, Eric O’Rourke, & Adam Grant Harvard Business Review Once upon a time, surveys were a staple for every leader to solicit feedback and every company to assess engagement. But now, surveys are starting to look like diesel trucks collecting dust in the age of electric cars. Companies…Read More
