Category: Business
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A closer look at insurance markets
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Mike Jakeman reviews Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It, a book that…
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Profiles in burnout
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In The Burnout Challenge, pioneering researchers Christina Maslach and Michael Leiter argue that companies aren’t treating employee burnout…
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Workplace inclusion: Easier said than done?
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In her new book, Sally Helgesen looks at the triggers that leave us divided and defeated, and the…
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The four qualities of resilient teams
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In Unbreakable: Building and Leading Resilient Teams, business professors Bradley Kirkman and Adam Stoverink tackle the problem of…
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Quantitative easing made easy
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Mike Jakeman reviews The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism, by Leon Wansleben, which argues…
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“Like mountain air in the veins”
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Daniel Akst finds lessons for business leaders in H.G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay. Published in 1908, it is an eerily…
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Can bossless management work?
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The new book Why Managers Matter, by B-school professors Nicolai Foss and Peter Klein, examines the bossless company…
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The limitations of mathematical modeling
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Mike Jakeman reviews Escape from Model Land, by Erica Thompson, which contends that overreliance on mathematical models is…
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Employee resource groups are more than “food, fun, and flags”
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In The Power of Employee Resource Groups, the diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant Farzana Nayani provides a practical…
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Could it be quitting time?
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Tom Ehrenfeld reviews Annie Duke’s Quit, a book that explores why we stay in jobs and relationships when…
