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MIT Unravels the Secrets Behind Collective Intelligence – Hint: IQ Not So Important

Singularity Hub, August 26, 2011.

When it comes to a successful group, the easiest way to ensure victory may be placing women on the team. MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence seeks to understand how humans get better (or worse) at solving problems as they work together. They studied hundreds of people working in small groups and found that they could determine a “C factor”, a key statistic that would predict if a group could perform well in a variety of tasks.

... Surprisingly, many common sense variables like group cohesion, motivation, and satisfaction simply didn’t seem to matter much. Instead, MIT determined that groups with a high C factor were mostly defined by:

• the high average social sensitivity of group members
• a high rate of sharing who gets to communicate
• more females

Daniel Goleman: 'Leaders Must Position Their Employees Somewhere between Boredom and Stress'

On Wikpedia

Goleman received his Ph.D. from Harvard, where he has also been a visiting lecturer. ... He is a co-chairman of The Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations, based in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University...

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Uni>ersia Knowledge Wharton, August 18, 2011

With his 1995 book Emotional Intelligence, author, psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman sparked widespread interest in the role that our emotions play in thought, decision making and individual success. The book became an international bestseller and Goleman has subsequently earned two Pulitzer Prize nominations and landed on the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change's list of the ten most outstanding intellectuals in the world...

...“Using the framework of emotional intelligence, companies can calculate with greater precision the chances that any individual will succeed than if they only evaluated his or her intellectual coefficient," Goleman noted, adding that the most academically successful student in a high school or college graduating class may have “wound up having inferior success at work compared with [someone] who was just an average student. The difference between the two is that the average student has been able not only to control his own emotions, but also positively influence groups of other workers. Everyone wants to work with him.”...

Steve Jobs: A Biography

On Amazon

From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In Steve Jobs: A Biography, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs’ professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs’ family members, key colleagues from Apple and its competitors, Steve Jobs is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.

Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and of Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter.

Hardcover: 448 pages

Publisher: Simon & Schuster (March 6, 2012)

Dean R. Glenn Hubbard of the Columbia Business School - WSJ - on Disclosure, Leading, Ethics

Article of the Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2011.

R. Glenn Hubbard, dean of the Columbia Business School, wants his students to make connections—and not just through networking.

He blames the recent financial crisis on a failure by leaders to successfully see the big picture, focusing instead on their area of expertise. Not connecting the dots, he says, was disastrous.

In Mr. Hubbard's view, business schools must prepare students with a broader education in order to thwart an economic meltdown. To that end, Columbia is deliberately weaving topics such as decision-making and ethics into classes across all disciplines...

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Excerpts:

WSJ: You've taken some heat for how the movie "Inside Job" portrayed your, and professors', disclosures [including dollars earned] of outside activities. Has Columbia changed its approach to any of this?

Mr. Hubbard: Despite what you might have seen in "Inside Job," we have a lot of disclosure. We just tightened it as a faculty, a project we've worked on since 2009. I've always disclosed what I do, my sources of income and relationships, that's how he knew what to ask me. We've now moved to a system where all faculty will do that. Basically, faculty résumés will [show] outside activities just like they [show] publications and teaching.

WSJ: What was the expectation before?

Mr. Hubbard: I've always done it [made disclosures] because I'm a dean. But the faculty did not have to do that. The faculty were always supposed to report if they received money to support research, that's just a matter of professional ethics...

President Amy Gutmann of the University of Pennsylvania, interview with The New York Times

New York Times, June 18, 2011

...those two things are really important about leadership, to have courage and to be farsighted in your vision, not to be just reacting to the next small challenge...

Forbes Leadership Highlights of the Week - Frederick E. Allen

Leadership view blog, May 24, 2011.

We wanted to get out this week, with all that beautiful spring weather out there, but we found ourselves inside watching others get out instead...

Tuck hosts leadership conference: 40 of the US´s most esteemed executives in cable technology and operations

The Dartmouth.com, May 2, 2011

Tuck School of Business and the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers partnered for the first time to host 40 of the nation’s most esteemed executives in cable technology and operations, according to M. Eric Johnson, a science of administration professor and director of the Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies at Tuck. The week-long leadership insitute, which took place between April 26 and April 30, was designed to help participants manage changes in their industry and to reinforce business, leadership and critical thinking skills necessary to remain competitive in an increasingly technological world, according to the Institute’s online brochure...Participants were also exposed to a variety of guest speakers such as Glenn Britt ’71, chairman and chief executive officer of Time Warner Cable Inc.

...“The key thing to understand about the cable industry is that you need to follow the changes in technology,” he said. “The industry is so fiercely competitive that without learning this innovative strategy and financial accounting it’s hard to succeed.”

The World’s Best Companies for Leadership - Frederick E. Allen - Forbes Leadership View

Post of January 25, 2011

What businesses most expect their employees to lead, and best prepare their employees to lead? It’s very, very hard to say, of course, but the management consultancy Hay Group tries. It just released its ranking of the world’s 20 “best companies for leadership.” The champion: General Electric.

Hay Group polled 3,769 individuals and 1,827 organizations worldwide...

The World’s Best Companies for Leadership - Frederick E. Allen - Forbes Leadership View

Post of January 25, 2011

What businesses most expect their employees to lead, and best prepare their employees to lead? It’s very, very hard to say, of course, but the management consultancy Hay Group tries. It just released its ranking of the world’s 20 “best companies for leadership.” The champion: General Electric.

Hay Group polled 3,769 individuals and 1,827 organizations worldwide...

Recovering from information overload - McKinsey

McKinsey Quarterly, January 2011

Always-on, multitasking work environments are killing productivity, dampening creativity, and making us unhappy.

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A body of scientific evidence demonstrates fairly conclusively that multitasking makes human beings less productive, less creative, and less able to make good decisions. If we want to be effective leaders, we need to stop.

15 Inspiring Biographies for Aspiring Leaders

Post of bschool.com, January 5th, 2011.