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Back Page: From Antarctica to Mars
Pedro Marques Quinteiro studies how teams work in space-analogue situations to predict and improve future work in space stations.
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How to have great meetings, according to 200 scientific studies
Americans average six hours per week in meetings. And managers especially spend considerably more time in them. But attendees rate as many as half of the meetings they attend as “poor,” and organizations in the US waste
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Want To Stifle Your Team’s Creativity? Do These Things
The slate of companies going public this year— Pinterest, Slack Technologies, and Uber, to name a few—should silence anyone who doubts the power of a bold idea. After all, one seemingly crazy brainstorm can up end an entire
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How We Roll: Study Shows We’re More Lone Wolves Than Team Players
What credo would you choose: “Share and share alike?” or “To each his own”? The choice doesn’t relate only to material goods or socialism versus capitalism. It can also reflect attitudes about how we solve
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Solving 21st-Century Problems Requires Skills That Few Are Trained In, Scientists Find
Tackling modern problems requires individuals who have the unique social and cognitive skills that allow for collaborative problem solving, say authors of a new report in Psychological Science in the Public Interest.
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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.
