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Men and women take different risks: study
Calgary Herald: A growing number of studies suggest that having women in a company's boardroom and executive suites fundamentally changes a corporation's decision-making process - and can improve the balance sheet too. While this is usually attributed to the fact that women take fewer risks than men, a study published this month suggests the stereotype of women as cautious riskavoiders misses the mark. Bernd Figner, a scientist at the Center for Decision Sciences at Columbia Business School, who studies when and how people take risks, suggests women are every bit as likely to step outside their security zones as men - the two sexes just do so in different ways.
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Is Shape of CEO’s Face a Measure of Power?
U.S. News & World Report: The width of a CEO's face may predict how well a company performs, according to a new study. Researchers compared the photos of 55 male CEOs of Fortune 500 organizations with their companies' financial performance. The study included only men because previous research found that a link between face shape and behavior applies only to men. The firms of CEOs with wider faces, relative to face height, performed much better than businesses led by CEOs with narrower faces, said Elaine M. Wong, of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and colleagues. Read the full story: U.S. News & World Report
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Patients’ Health Motivates Workers To Wash Their Hands
Can changing a single word on a sign motivate doctors and nurses to wash their hands? Campaigns about hand-washing in hospitals usually try to scare doctors and nurses about personal illness, says Adam Grant, a psychological scientist at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. “Most safety messages are about personal consequences,” Grant says. “They tell you to wash your hands so you don’t get sick.” But his new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that this is the wrong kind of warning. Hand-washing is an eternal problem for hospitals.
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The Bully in the Baby?
While only a minority of toddlers are habitual bullies, this aggressive tendency appears to emerge right along with the motor skills that make it possible.
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Jena McGregor On Leadership: Motivated by charity
The Washington Post: What would motivate you more: a bonus you could spend on yourself, or a bonus you had to spend on someone else? Most people, surely, would instinctively say the former. Why on Earth would I work smarter or better, or be more satisfied in my job, in exchange for something I had to turn around and give away? But a paper by researchers from Harvard Business School, the University of British Columbia and the University of Liege finds otherwise.
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Wide-Headed CEOs Outperform Counterparts, Daily Telegraph Says
Bloomberg: Chief executive officers with wide heads perform better financially than those with long faces, the Daily Telegraph reported, citing a study in the journal Psychological Science. Men with wider faces tend to have higher testosterone levels, making them more aggressive, which explains the link between face shape and company performance, the Daily Telegraph said, citing the research by Elaine Wong from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and colleagues, who looked at CEO faces and financial performance of 55 Fortune 500 companies. Read the whole story: Bloomberg
