Weekly Hotlist: Managing a Team That’s Been Asked to Do Too Much

 

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January 16, 2017 Managing a Team That's Been Asked to Do Too Much By Liane Davey Coping with unrealistic performance goals.

Emotional intelligence How to Boost Your (and Others') Emotional Intelligence by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Michael Sanger It's possible to change your baseline. Networking What You Need to Stand Out in a Noisy World by Dorie Clark There are three foundational elements, and you need at least two. Leadership & Managing people Whiteboard Session: The Ingredients of Great Leadership by Nancy Koehn Historian Nancy Koehn explains. Technology The Humans Working Behind the AI Curtain by Mary L. Gray, Siddharth Suri The dirty little secret of automation is that people make it possible. Ethics Why It's So Hard to Train Someone to Make an Ethical Decision by Eugene Soltes Reality is more complex than the classroom. Economics & Society Your Success Is Shaped by Your Genes by Alison Beard New research reveals that people who have certain genetic variants earn higher incomes, hold more prestigious jobs, and accumulate more assets. Strategy The Explainer: Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne Make the competition irrelevant. Strategy How the Attacks on Trump Reinforce His Strategy by Roger L. Martin Saying he's "unfit" or his behavior is "unprecedented" only reinforces his message.

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