The Emotional Boundaries You Need at Work – Harvard Business Review Blog
To develop meaningful and mature relationships at work or at home we need to develop two filters. The first filter protects you from other people. The second filter protects other people from you.
Keep Time and Emotion from Killing a Negotiation – Harvard Business Review Blog
Time and emotion — these are the two things most often wasted during a negotiation. We simply spend too much time on items that don’t really matter, because we let our emotions override any semblance of logic. This article discusses five areas that can both help move a negotiation forward and in doing so usually advance us to where we want to be.
Teams Are More Comfortable with Ambiguity than Individuals Are – Harvard Business Review Blog
In a series of experiments on choices between sure amounts of money and various kinds of gambles, researchers found that three-person groups are both less averse to ambiguity and less inclined to seek it — in other words, are more neutral about ambiguity — than are individuals. A possible reason is that individuals’ extreme attitudes toward ambiguity, either negative or positive, tend to be softened by persuasive arguments from other group members, says a team led by Steffen Keck of Insead. The findings suggest that teams may be better than individuals at handling tasks involving imprecise probabilities, such as long-term planning.