The Two Sides of Envy at Work
Back when she was in college, Alaina G. Levine used to envy fellow students who seemed to have their entire lives mapped out. A physics and astronomy student at the University of Arizona, her own...
Can Geopolitical Decision-Making Benefit from a Little Bias?
A well-established finding from modern psychology is that mentally healthy people are generally overconfident (with men being particularly cocky). What this body of research suggests is that we individually tend to overestimate our abilities, as...
How Political Polarization Affects Our Personal and Professional Lives
Listen to “#29 – How Political Polarization Affects Our Personal and Professional Lives” on Spreaker. In this episode of the Breaking the Fever podcast, we speak with Alison Goldsworthy, Laura Osborne, and Alexandra Chesterfield—the authors...
Ask a Good Question Every Day
The late Nobel Laureate in physics Isidor I. Rabi once said, ”My mother made me a scientist without ever intending it. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: ‘So? Did you...
The Challenge of Working Remotely That’s Gone Most Unappreciated
The option to work remotely is wonderful and worth fighting for. It’s a good thing that millions of people, including employers and employees, have been getting a taste for what it’s like to consistently work...
Remote Work and the Strategic Advantage of Culture
In this virtual event, hosted by the New York Fed in July, Alison Taylor joined other panelists to discuss, among other things, how norms are transmitted in various work environments, and the potential impacts of...
The U.K. Government’s Sweeping Amnesty Proposal Is Seriously Flawed
Last month, the British government announced a sweeping and ill-considered amnesty proposal designed to slam the door on any form of legal or public accountability for the political violence that plagued Northern Ireland for three decades. Out...
Companies Should Measure Their Levels of Workplace Bullshit
Like cheating in school, bullshitting is a way for people to advance their careers. If you’re good at spouting appealing and convincing bullshit, this can take you places. One of the reasons so much of...
Getting Interrupted by Your Coworkers Is Good, Actually
No doubt it’s happened to you, in your dynamic work environment. You’re in the middle of some task at work, focused. Perhaps you’ve even put your phone in a drawer, or at least somewhere out...
How to Have Better Conversations About Ethics in Business
It is often difficult, many people would agree, to talk about ethics in business. But why? It’s not because people don’t know what ethics is. Most of us understand that ethics is simply the systematic...