LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

While hard skills such as data mining rank consistently high, the greatest skill gaps are in the areas of leadership, communication, collaboration and time management.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2017

To answer these questions, I spoke to researchers, and spent time digging through dozens of academic journal articles. Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. How can we overcome it, preferably without hating ourselves or the techniques we use in the process? Why we procrastinate. Srini Pillay.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 4, 2018

In a recent paper , published at the Academy of Management Journal, we propose that one explanation is that many managers are, simply put, too busy to be fair. Although this may be true of a few bosses, most recognize the importance of fairness and want to act fairly.

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Harvard Business

JULY 3, 2018

In a series of studies recently published in the Journal of Consumer Research , people typically chose to complete tasks that had very short deadlines attached to them, even in situations in which tasks with less pressing deadlines were just as easy and promised a bigger reward. You’re hardly alone.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 13, 2017

Recent research I conducted along with Dylan Glover and William Pariente, forthcoming in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, attempts to address this gap. We find that when managers hold negative beliefs, even unconscious ones, about minority workers, minority employees perform much worse than they do with unbiased bosses.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2017

The power of our devices, even when they’re just silently sitting there, was confirmed recently by a study published in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. After all, the mere presence of a phone, even unused, stresses us out.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2016

This study will be published soon in Leadership & Organizational Development Journal. A sample of 2,388 middle managers reported their senior managers’ beliefs about work-family balance by answering questions on a sliding scale about the extent to which important decision makers.

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Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2017

Maybe that’s why, according to research published in the journal Applied Research in Quality of Life , we tend to experience more happiness before our trip rather than after. It can be a challenge — and a bit of a rude awakening — to return from vacation and get a handle on all you’ve missed.

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Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2017

Our findings were published in the journal Psychological Science. My lab recently conducted a series of experiments to test what “leisure first” really feels like — and we found that it’s not nearly as worrisome as it seems.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2018

Or maybe you want to build a daily practice (like journaling) but can’t to commit to a specific time each day. Maybe you want to start eating a high-protein snack mid-morning, or promote your latest blog posts on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn as soon as they get published.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

In a recent study published in the Journal of Consumer Research , my colleagues Rajesh Bagchi and Stefan Hock and I demonstrate that longer deadlines can lead workers to think an assignment is harder than it actually is, which causes them to commit more resources to the work.

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