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Managing the human animal
Time and time again, managers have tried to eliminate hierarchies, office politics, interdepartmental rivalry and such like - but to no avail. Why? The new science of evolutionary psychology says such managers are working against human nature.
Thinking, feeling and deciding: The influence of emotions on the decision making and performance of traders
We report on a qualitative investigation of the influence of emotions on the decision making of traders in four City of London investment banks, a setting where work has been predominantly theorized as dominated by rational analysis. We conclude that emotions and their regulation play a central role in traders' decision making. We find differences between high and low performing traders in how they engage with their intuitions, and that different strategies for emotion regulation have material consequences for trader behavior and performance. Traders deploying antecedent-focused emotional regulation strategies achieve a performance advantage over those employing primarily response-focused strategies. We argue that, in particular, response-focused approaches incur a performance penalty, in part because of the reduced opportunity to combine analysis with the use of affective cues in making intuitive judgments. We discuss the implications for our understanding of emotion and decision making, and for traders' practice.
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Playing to win: Biological imperatives, self-regulation, and trade-offs in the game of career success
The article applies evolutionary theory to the concept of career success, to argue the primacy of 'objective' outcomes, utilities such as status and wealth, and to analyze why the relationship with subjective career success is not stronger. Although there are grounds for expecting subjective evaluations to be sympathetic secondary accompaniments of objective success and failure, there are substantial numbers of paradoxically 'happy losers' and 'unhappy winners' in the career game. These are explored theoretically as adaptive outcomes of self-regulation and sense-making processes. The nature of that game is then explored by a closer examination of the interrelations and decay functions of the major objective success outcomes. This is undertaken as a theoretical exercise, and also by reference to the evidence in the literature. Both approaches support the existence of close linkages among most of these outcomes, though empirical data reveal variations that highlight the importance for careerists to be aware of trade-offs and risks in career strategies. Context mediates these relationships, especially key contingencies such as individual differences, gender, career stage, culture, and business sector. The implications are discussed; in particular the role of careers theory and research in helping to cut through some of the ideological aspects of 'subjective' careers in order to help raise the awareness of actors in the labor market about objective career realities.
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الحروب العائلية : الصراعات الكلاسيكية في الشركات العائلية والسبيل للتعامل معها
يكشف هذا الكتاب الذي يتناول عائلات مثل جوتشي وفورد وماكين وأمباني وريد ستون على نحو مثير للدهشة أسلوب العائلات في مزاولة الأعمال وكيف يمكن للمجادلات أن تهدد بتمزيق شركة ما وبالإضافة إلى رواية القصص الكامنة وراء بعض هذه الصدامات الدرامية، يقدم كتاب الحروب العائلية أيضا نصائح قيمة لأي إنسان مسئول عن إدارة شركة عائلية.
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The \I\ of Leadership
This is the leadership book you have to read: a barn-storming new take on what makes a versatile, integrated, and effective leader
Using stories and examples from the lives of leaders, from the sports stadium to the White House to the office of the CEO, Nicholson shows vividly how the capacity of leaders to see what others do not see frames their actions and allows them to transform, build, destroy, or stabilize. Leaders fail through lack of insight—into themselves and into the worlds they inhabit.
The strategic challenge of leadership is to find the right balance between impact and versatility and the successful crafting of an identity that merges the leader and the surrounding culture or 'zeitgeist.'
Leaders covered in the book include: George Bush, Tony Blair, George S Patton, Warren Buffet, Steve Jobs, Josef Stalin, Hannibal, Elizabeth I, Nelson Mandela, Edith Cowan, Abraham Lincoln, Mohandas Gandhi, Henry Ford, Ernest Shackleton, Barack Obama, Robert Maxwell, JFK, Pope John XXIII, Margaret Thatcher, and Samuel Pepys.
This book resonates with insights and searching questions on the nature of human leadership. It will be an invaluable guide to managers, consultants, and people everywhere.
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Evolutionary Psychology and Family Business: A New Synthesis for Theory, Research, and Practice
The article seeks to show that the ideas of evolutionary psychology have not only a unique contribution to make to the study of family business but have an overarching capacity to integrate theory, resolve empirical debates, and lead research in new directions. The article considers, first, what is different about family firms before outlining the Darwinian framework and its implications, and then moves on to an analysis of kinship dynamics as central to understanding the roots of cooperation and conflict in the family firm. The article concludes with a discussion of the scope for theoretical synthesis, practical implications, and the position this analysis leads us to about the unique performance potential and liabilities of the family firm.
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WHEN ATHLETIC VICTORY AND FATHERHOOD DID MIX: THE COMMEMORATION OF DIAGORAS OF RHODES
: The fame of the great boxer Diagoras of Rhodes was intimately, and uniquely, bound up with the fame of his children: for no other classical or archaic victor were his children so central to his own commemoration. This paper will explore that centrality, showing the extent to which Diagoras’ portrayal across all media — not only in epinician and sculptural dedications, but also in the oral tradition — was unique in emphasizing his status as a father, and seek to explain the choice. I will argue that the portrayal of Diagoras as a father, subject to the normal biological rhythms of life, signified a particular type of politics that favored networking and connections between cities, promoting, in particular, the synoecism of Rhodes’ three cities.
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The design of work-an evolutionary perspective
This story illustrates one of the main themes in the literature that have begun to surface in recent decades: The need to put job design into context (Morgeson & Humphrey, 2008). The neo-Darwinian perspective, known today as evolutionary psychology (EP) takes this further , in two directions -- historical and interdisciplinary -- that can help to support the current trend in the literature, which seems to be seeking to free the study of job design from the confines of the traditional work psychology approach. [Copyright John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.]
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Literary Theory Survey Classes for Classics Undergraduates
After first arguing that literary theory should play a significant role in an undergraduate classics curriculum, this paper lays out the promises and pitfalls of one particular approach to making literary theory central: a full-unit survey class in literary theory, taught by a member of the classics faculty and responsive to (although not wholly structured by) the particular needs of classics majors. The basic model is evaluated through the exploration of a specific class taught by the author in a number of iterations.
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