Research shows that using feedback is how organisms — and organizations — stay alive. Here’s how leaders can make the most of the anxiety-producing process. Not too long ago, 62 employees at a major consultancy found themselves getting called into
strategy+business | Beyond Bias
By HEIDI GRANT HALVORSON & DAVID ROCK Imagine that you are hiring an employee for a position in which a new perspective would be valuable. But while reviewing resumes, you find yourself drawn to a candidate who is similar in
How to Avoid Google Brain and Photo-Taking Impairment and Take Control of Your Memory
Your memory plays fascinating tricks on you. It contains the most bizarre details of an experience with vividness, while occasionally leaving out some obvious or even crucial facts. Sometimes, it can be distorted and even false, leading you to remember
What Really Happens When Companies Nix Performance Ratings
By DAVID ROCK & BETH JONES The move away from conventional, ratings-based performance management continues to gain momentum. By November this year, at least 52 large companies had shifted from the practice of once-yearly performance appraisals; estimates are that hundreds of
How Neuroscience Will Make You a Better Leader
By LAURA GARNETT I sat down with Dr. David Rock, who is paving the way in “neuroleadership.” With his team, he brings together global experts to develop the science of leadership development. The world is certainly going through a shift
Performance Management: ARE YOU READY FOR CHANGE?
Companies have long spent considerable energy trying to develop scalable systems for keeping track of, motivating and rewarding the performance of their employees. In the 1970s, Aubrey Daniels coined the term “performance management”, and so began a universal experiment to make
Poverty’s most insidious damage is to a child’s brain
An alarming 22 percent of U.S. children live in poverty, which can have long-lasting negative consequences on brain development, emotional health and academic achievement. A new study, published July 20 in JAMA Pediatrics, provides even more compelling evidence that growing up
Students Think They Can Multitask. Here’s Proof They Can’t.
With easy access to all sorts of technology, students multitask. So do lots of us for that matter. But students are way too convinced that multitasking is a great way to work. They think they can do two or three
Making Education Brain Science
LAST month, two kindergarten classes at the Blue School were hard at work doing what many kindergartners do: drawing. One group pursued a variation on the self-portrait. “That’s me thinking about my brain,” one 5-year-old-girl said of her picture. Down
Major study of teenage sleep patterns aims to assess impact on learning
Pupils to start lessons at 10am in effort to see how neuroscience might improve school performance and exam results. Thousands of 14-16-year-olds are to be given the chance of a lie-in and a later start to the school day to