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Highly Gifted? How NOT to Annoy Your Colleagues….

June 7, 2013 by Yosh Beier

Let’s just assume you tested your IQ and you came out above 130. That, technically, makes you a highly-gifted person by many definitions social or organizational psychologists use. It also puts you disproportionately at risk of struggling with career issues if you choose to work for a bigger organization. High intelligence doesn’t necessarily mean career […]




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Try Deliberate Crudeness for More Creativity

July 30, 2012 by Yosh Beier

Why do smart people defend stupid ideas? It’s easy to blame organizational culture – think about the Not-invented-here syndrome so nicely described in Morten Hansen’s book “Collaboration”. But there is clearly a personal and very emotional component to it. A recent study (Blind in one eye: How psychological ownership of ideas affects the types of […]




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Invite More Women to Increase the Collective Intelligence of Your Team

June 24, 2011 by Yosh Beier

With all the hopes and promises of open innovation, team-based creativity, and peer-driven collaboration, effective ways to increase collective intelligence are hotly debated. One repeatedly replicated finding is that IQs of individual members don’t correlate with a group’s collective intelligence – measured by its ability to solve complex problems and to make effective decisions. In […]




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Effective Management: The Evidence Google Can (and Cannot) Find

April 7, 2011 by Yosh Beier

As recently reported by the New York Times, Google unleashed its analytical power in-house as a part of Google’s management effectiveness project. Putting its data mining experts to work, Google dug through thousands of performance reviews and other forms of data evaluating managers’ effectiveness in its “quest to build a better boss”. (NY Times, Mar-12-2011) […]




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