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Researchers at Vlerick Business School’s Centre for Financial Leadership and Digital Transformation have worked with CFOs and ...

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Yesterday we listed five research-backed strategies that can lead to a happier life—even for busy professionals. Here are five more: Act nicely. Agreeableness is consistently found to be highly and ...

For years, middle managers have gotten a bad rap as inflexible, unimaginative bureaucrats. But a new study shows that when it comes to implementing radical change, middle managers are your best ...

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“Transparency” is a watchword in management these days, and it’s easy to understand why. After all, if people conduct their work in plain view, won’t they be more open and accountable? Won ...

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The chief executive of a major Canadian company complained recently that he can’t get his engineers to think like managers. It’s a common complaint, but behind it lies an uncommonly important ...

Most developmental psychologists agree that what differentiates leaders is not so much their philosophy of leadership, their personality, or their style of management. Rather, it’s their ...

Reprint: R1201G Most of us assume that success will lead to happiness. Shawn Achor, founder of the corporate strategy firm Good Think, argues that we’ve got it backward; in work he’s done with ...

While backlash to DEI has challenged how many companies and practitioners approach creating more equitable workplaces, fewer have considered whether DEI work itself has room to improve. A new ...