Weekly Hotlist: Playing Office Politics Without Selling Your Soul

 

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September 18, 2017 Playing Office Politics Without Selling Your Soul By Robert B. Kaiser, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Derek Lusk Not all politics are bad.

Transportation The Tragic Crash of Flight AF447 Shows the Unlikely but Catastrophic Consequences of Automation by Nick Oliver, Thomas Calvard, Kristina Potočnik Automation can make us safer, but it creates new vulnerabilities. Innovation What Your Innovation Process Should Look Like by Steve Blank, Pete Newell Whether you're a company or a government agency. Leadership Who Empathizes with Machiavellian or Narcissistic Leaders? by Nadine Page, Sabine Bergner, Stefan Wills Other Machiavellians and narcissists, according to research. Motivating people How to Motivate Employees to Go Beyond Their Jobs by Mark C. Bolino, Anthony C. Klotz It's critical for organizations, and it makes work more fulfilling. Organizational culture As Your Company Evolves, What Happens to Employees Who Don't? by Robert Glazer Organizational fit is a moving target. Sales What's the Right Kind of Bonus to Motivate Your Sales Force? by Doug J. Chung, Das Narayandas Evidence from an experiment at a large Indian company. Pricing Whole Foods Is Becoming Amazon's Brick-and-Mortar Pricing Lab by Hermann Simon And changing how Americans think about the cost of healthy food. Developing employees How to Help Someone Discover Work That Excites Them by Amy Jen Su Useful questions to ask.

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