Ethikos Editor’s Weekly Picks: Decision-Making: A Hidden Source of Fatigue and Inefficiency

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Decision-Making: A Hidden Source of Fatigue and Inefficiency

Jack Quarles for Lead Change Group:
Let me take you back for a minute. Can you remember the first week of your current job, or the first month you lived in a new city? If you’re able to recollect your state of mind in those days, it probably included a good measure of exhaustion. Read more

How to Act Quickly Without Sacrificing Critical Thinking

Jesse Sostrin for Harvard Business Review:
An unbridled urgency can be counterproductive and costly. If you’re too quick to react, you can end up with short-sighted decisions or superficial solutions, neglecting underlying causes and create collateral damage in the process. Read more

Direct Managers are the Best Way to Reach Employees

From Gartner:
Employees have to speak to more people and deal with more information from more sources than they ever have in the past. This is one of the handful of shifts that are fundamentally changing big business (digitization being another), and which certainly makes it more difficult for communications teams to get important messages across to employees, and to encourage the right action and decisions. Read more

14 Psychological Forces that Make Good People Do Bad Things

Travis Bradberry for Inc.:
Given the right circumstances, good people can get caught up in some very bad things. More often than not, psychology is to blame. When it comes to unethical behavior, good people don’t tend to go right off the deep end like Bernie Madoff or Kenneth Lay. Read more

Keys to Employee Engagement with Nancy Rothbard

Nancy Rothbard for Wharton Magazine:
Employees aren’t as attentive to their work, as satisfied by their jobs, or as committed to their companies’ goals as you might think. And that dearth of engagement is costly to businesses, according to management department chair and David Pottruck professor Nancy Rothbard. Read more
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