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On the board, ‘twokenism’ is the new tokenism
California recently passed historic legislation mandating that the boards of public companies based in the state include at least one woman. With just over 20 percent of S&P 500 company board seats occupied by women
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Social scientists reveal everything you need to know about holding the perfect meeting
Does your boss have an unhealthy relationship with flow charts? Do your colleagues scroll on their phones during meetings? Do you find meetings that should take 15 minutes last an hour? You’re not alone, but
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Work Meetings Are Terrible. Here’s How to Make Them Better.
When trying to understand why meetings suck so hard, it can help to use the analogy of our rapidly depleting fisheries. Fisherman don’t really have any incentive to stop fishing, and countries can’t quite agree
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Psychological Science Can Make Your Meetings Better
Meetings are the bane of office life for many professionals but they don’t have to be, a team of scientists finds.
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Wharton psychologist Adam Grant says men should learn to listen like they’re wrong
For the past seven years, Adam Grant, age 37, has been rated the top professor at The Wharton School. With a PhD in organization psychology, Grant focuses his research on mentorship, emotional labor, and gender equality, and has
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Teams in Space: It Isn’t Just Rocket Science
A growing cadre of behavioral scientists is helping NASA understand how astronauts will function as teams on long-duration space missions — including a journey to Mars.
