
Why It’s (Sometimes) OK for the Boss to Play Favorites
Blog, Corporate Culture, Fairness, Incentives, LeadershipIt is managers’ natural tendency to pick favorites.

3 Organizational Issues Most Leaders Fail to Get Right
Blog, Corporate Culture, Incentives, Leadership
When surveys find workers feeling disrespected at work as a leading reason for quitting, it can be all too easy for leadership to brush this off as either a generational problem (“kids these days”) or something that only HR can address.
When…

The Obscure Calculation Transforming Climate Policy
Blog, Decision Making, Incentives
After long debate, economists and philosophers are reaching consensus on how to value future generations.
Barring a mass Homo sapiens extinction event from, say, nuclear war or another disaster, many more billions of humans will…

Banking Culture Reform: Trust, Technology, and The New Workplace
Blog, Compliance & Ethics Programs, Corporate Culture, Corporate Culture Assessment, Incentives, PodcastIn this episode of the Bank Notes podcast, from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, host Toni Dechario, a member of the New York Fed’s culture team, speaks with Alison Taylor about her interest in the link between unethical behavior and organizational culture, ethical pressures in finance, the need to do proper behavioral experimental research in real organizations, and more.

What Commentators Get Wrong (and Right) About North Korea
Blog, Decision Making, Incentives, NegotiationThis month, North Korea tested around two dozen missiles, including an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with a range of approximately 5,000 miles.

Misinformation Is Not As Persuasive As People Fear
Blog, Decision Making, Incentives, TrustIn 2017, Collins Dictionary crowned “fake news” its word of the year.

Why the Global Financial Crisis Is Bound to Be Repeated
Blog, Corporate Culture, Incentives, Personality & PersonnelMost financial crises have plenty in common.

Rethinking Insurance for Floods, Wildfires, and Other Catastrophes
Blog, IncentivesWhen Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana on August 29, 2005, surges of seawater more than 20 feet higher than normal tide levels crested over the levees surrounding New Orleans.

Bandits Are Losing Interest in Robbing Banks, As Some Crimes No Longer Pay
Blog, IncentivesBank robbery is a high-profile crime that fascinates many people.

Democracy in the Next Cycle of History
Blog, Corporate Culture, Incentives, Podcast, Trust, Uncategorized
https://youtu.be/SbUViuFITTI
In this conversation with Long Now co-founders Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelly, Jonathan Haidt discusses the prospects for democracy in an age of spiraling polarization. He touches on technological optimism,…