Professional growth can get stymied for all sorts of reasons. But one of the most important is rarely discussed: You’re contending with ghosts from your past. Early in life, family dynamics give rise to many fundamental behaviors and attitudes toward authority, mastery, and identity. When similar dynamics emerge at work, people often revert to childhood patterns. To enable change in the perso…
Digitization may be necessary for many businesses’ continued success, but in our increasingly complex world, what companies really need to do is build new forms of competitive advantage and transform themselves for the future. And that requires fundamental changes in their top leaders—not just in individuals’ capabilities but in the way they collectively steer the ship. Drawing on their r…
In this article we describe how the repeated experience of evaluating peers in undergraduate classes resulted in students becoming more confident and skilled in the task of evaluating others. We used a matched group quasi-experimental design, in which 182 students evaluated their learning group members in three different semesters, and a control group (three matched groups of 182 students each)…