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Why You Can’t Concentrate at Work
The Wall Street Journal: After taking down walls to create open offices and foster lots of interaction and collaboration, some companies are finding they’ve done the job too well. All of this social engineering has
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The leadership lessons in Sheryl Sandberg’s and Adam Grant’s new book about resilience and grief
The Washington Post: Sheryl Sandberg’s long-awaited book is out on what she learned about becoming resilient and coping with grief following the sudden death of her husband, Silicon Valley executive Dave Goldberg, in 2015. It’s an intimate, largely personal book about
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Love Culture: What It Takes to Create a Happy Workplace
Knowledge@Wharton: Knowledge@Wharton: Your study focused on an interesting environment, which was firehouses and firemen. Why did you pick firemen? What you were looking at, and what you were trying to find? Nancy Rothbard: Mandy and
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Seven Steps to Reduce Bias in Hiring
The Wall Street Journal: Why is it that many of the world’s most advanced companies struggle to create diversified workforces, despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity training and recruitment? Implicit bias may
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What Research Says About Humor in the Workplace
The Wall Street Journal: The use of jokes and comedy affects how confident we appear, how productive and creative we are and even how much status we achieve. Brad Bitterly and Maurice Schweitzer of the
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In Choosing a Job, Focus on the Fun
The New York Times: If you don’t like your job, you aren’t alone. In fact, two out of three working Americans do not feel engaged at work, according to a Gallup survey. And many of
