The Find: Your brain is hard-wired to believe that more expensive advice is better advice. The Source: Research from Francesca Gino at Carnegie Mellon University published in "Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes DOI" and discussed in the British Psychological Society blog. The Takeaway:...
The Idea in Brief As we all know, to stay ahead of competitors, companies must constantly enhance the way they do business. But more performance-improvement programs fail than succeed. That's because many managers don't realize that...
Most managers believe that relentless execution--the efficient, timely production and delivery of offerings--is vital to corporate performance. Execution-as-efficiency is important. But focusing too narrowly on it can prevent your company from adapting effectively to change. ...