When was the last time you were really wrong about something? In elementary school, I adamantly defended to my teacher something that my friends told me at recess—that the USA included 52 states. My teacher corrected me, there were only 50 United States. Firm in my...
Positive work environments have been shown to boost productivity, improve growth mindset, and increase collaboration across teams. A recent book by Ross School of Business Professor Emeritus Kim Cameron summarizes his many years of research into the power of positive...
Small behavioral experiments in daily life can lead to tremendous personal growth and leadership development, according to Ross School of Business Professor and Sanger Faculty Champion Sue Ashford. But how do you change your behavior, develop soft skills, and achieve...
What if you had the power to think of bold, innovative ideas that changed the world? Here’s some good news: you do. Everyone has the capability. Adam Grant’s Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World instills confidence in readers to be original thinkers by...
During the current pandemic, many of us experience some things for the first time – salary cuts or job loss, difficulty getting groceries, lack of childcare, managing remote learning, missing our social contacts. We are adjusting and will get through this. But...
What if you could design a moment that would create a lifelong customer? Or what if you could make your partner’s next birthday a day they will remember forever, rather than just let another year roll by? Chip and Dan Heath’s book, The Power of Moments, lays out a...
Grit matters. How do we grow it? Grit—it’s a buzz word. Who doesn’t want to have it? But what exactly is it and how do we get it? We read Angela Duckworth’s book, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, and summarized our take-aways for you. What is grit and why...
After a busy and rewarding winter semester, our team was eager to dive back into our book club. With a recommendation from Sanger’s new faculty director, Lindy Greer, we decided to read Difficult Conversations: How To Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce...
The Sanger team’s book club recently completed Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well by Sheila Heen and Douglas Stone. Our team conducts a quarterly 360-degree evaluation for every team member, so we were curious to discover new...
The Sanger team’s book club recently completed Daniel H. Pink’s latest book, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. Our team has often had anecdotal conversations about the best time to complete work, so we were excited to read about the science behind it....
Our team was eager to dive into The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle, just released this year. Several team members appreciated Coyle’s anecdotal-style, a departure from the science-heavy books we’ve focused on lately. Our takeaways and experiments we plan to run are...
Our team’s book club is currently reading up on the science of peak performance in Fabritius and Hagemann’s 2017 book. Check out our top learnings and some key experiments we plan to run below: Stop multitasking—really. The authors point to research that the brain...
