13 Posts found for Source: Harvard Business Review (HBR)

Thinking of populists as left or right is a misunderstanding. Populists care little about ideology — what they want is power. To get it, they build their popularity by polarizing populations. Fanning division between “us” and “them” creates intense loyalty from a base of supporters, who are easily convinced that things that stand in the leaders’ way — including independent institutions and laws — are … [ Read more ]

Authors: Rachel Kleinfeld, Roberto Stefan Foa | Source: Harvard Business Review (HBR) | Subject: Politics & Public Policy

Our own choices often affect outcomes beyond their direct impact through signaling effects that reveal information about our own abilities, beliefs, and intentions. In turn, we are often motivated to perform specific actions in order to affect how we are perceived by others and how we build a reputation.

Authors: Dirk Sliwka, Michael Spence, Timo Vogelsang | Source: Harvard Business Review (HBR) | Subjects: Action | Accomplishment, Psychology | Behavior

At its core, equity is fairness. Fair processes often result in a redistribution of outcomes because more people get opportunities to succeed.

Authors: Enrica N. Ruggs, Oscar Holmes IV | Source: Harvard Business Review (HBR) | Subjects: Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy

Fairness comprises outcomes (distributive justice) and process (procedural justice), and these are judged differently depending on a few predictable conditions.

Authors: Marco Bertini, Oded Koenigsberg | Source: Harvard Business Review (HBR) | Subjects: Concepts, Law | Legal, Life & Society, Sociology | Anthropology

We live in a world where all style and no substance will get you farther than no style and all substance.

Author: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic | Source: Harvard Business Review (HBR) | Subjects: Life & Society, Perception | Observation

Be interested. Everyone wants to be interesting, but the vitalizing thing is to be interested… As the proverb says, “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

Author: John Gardner | Source: Harvard Business Review (HBR) | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight, Personal Improvement

When you’re a kid every day is full of firsts, full of new experiences. As you get older, your firsts become fewer and fewer. If you want to stay young, you have to work to keep trying new things.

Author: Roy Spence | Source: Harvard Business Review (HBR) | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

I have to say that the single most important lesson I learned in 25 years talking every single day to people was that there’s a common denominator in our human experience. […] The common denominator that I found in every single interview is we want to be validated. We want to be understood. I’ve done over 35,000 interviews in my career. And as soon as … [ Read more ]

Author: Oprah Winfrey | Source: Harvard Business Review (HBR) | Subject: Psychology | Behavior

The right is starry eyed about the market but coldly realistic about the limitations of government. The left is starry eyed about government but coldly realistic about the limitations of the market. As Churchill once said about democracy, it’s the worst possible system except for all the others. Both the market and the government are deeply flawed tools. But they are all we have.

Authors: Joan C. Williams, Ro Khanna | Source: Harvard Business Review (HBR) | Subject: Politics & Public Policy

We don’t need to reinvent capitalism. We just need to practice it. That means that corporations that embrace market mechanisms and decry government intervention in the good times should not change the rules when times turn tough. Privatizing profits while socializing risks isn’t capitalism: It’s rigged roulette. Equally important, practicing capitalism does not mean insisting on special treatment from government that benefits shareholders at the … [ Read more ]

Authors: Joan C. Williams, Ro Khanna | Source: Harvard Business Review (HBR) | Subjects: Business, Economics | Economy, Politics & Public Policy

Trying to change the world without wanting to change our world is a classic sign of mid-life and a common defense when our worldviews collapse. Only offering to lend one’s hand and means can be a way to assure that one will remain valuable and central even in a new world. (It’s also a way to pursue the most ultra-capitalist of aspirations—a revolution without revolutionaries).
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Author: Gianpiero Petriglieri | Source: Harvard Business Review (HBR) | Subjects: Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior

The threads of friendship knows no end.
I came for knowledge, I found instead soul friends.
In my life’s unexpected crossroads, our roads converged
And in converging, I was forever changed.
And though we must part
For different dreams view different ends,
I will always cherish and retell the tale
When strangers met, and yet…
Their hearts listened.
And like children, their bond endured,
long past their march of parting.

Our roads may not converge again,
But … [ Read more ]

Author: Emmanuel Matuco | Source: Harvard Business Review (HBR) (April2009) | Subjects: Family & Friends, Inspiration, Poetry

A healthy society balances the power of respected governments in the public sector with both responsible businesses in the private sector and robust communities in what I call the plural sector — the clubs, religions, community hospitals, foundations, NGOs, and cooperatives with which so many of us engage. The plural sector, although the least recognized of the three, is large and diverse. Many of us … [ Read more ]

Author: Henry Mintzberg | Source: Harvard Business Review (HBR) (March2017) | Subjects: America, Articles & Links, Excerpts, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy