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Three Words to Help Retrain Your Brain
Knowledge@Wharton 69,206Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, authors of the best-selling book 'Freakonomics,' are back again in an effort ...
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Givers vs. Takers: the Surprising Truth About Who Gets Ahead
Knowledge@Wharton 62,056"A colleague asks you for feedback on a report. A LinkedIn connection requests an introduction to one of your key ...
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A World Transformed: What Are the Top 30 Innovations of the Last 30 Years?
Knowledge@Wharton 47,364"Imagine this is 1979: If you were reading this article back then, chances are you would have read it on paper -- ...
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Managing Emotions in the Workplace: Do Positive and Negative Attitudes Drive Performance?
Knowledge@Wharton 41,739You know the type: coworkers who never have anything positive to say, whether at the weekly staff meeting or in the ...
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Gretchen Rubin's Search for Happiness
Knowledge@Wharton 29,528"Are you happy? Could you be happier? Gretchen Rubin was already "pretty happy" when she asked herself these very ...
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Why Fostering a Culture of Companionate Love in the Workplace Matters
Knowledge@Wharton 28,867"What is companionate love?" To Sigal Barsade, a Wharton School management professor, it is when workers "who are ...
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Seeking Silence & Stillness in the Rush of Business Life
Knowledge@Wharton 28,492Pico Iyer -- essayist, author, travel writer and thinker -- has a unique perspective on many things. His physical ...
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Integrating Work and Life
Knowledge@Wharton 28,062Often times we can feel overwhelmed by what we see as competing values: how can I be a good family member, a loving ...
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The Honest Truth About Dishonesty
Knowledge@Wharton 27,465"Most major betrayals within organizations -- from accounting fraud to doping in sports -- start with a first step ...
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Google's Chade-Meng Tan Wants You to Search Inside Yourself for Inner (and World) Peace
Knowledge@Wharton 24,137Chade-Meng Tan (widely known as Meng) was among the earliest engineers to be hired at Google. When Google allowed ...
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The Connection Between Business & Poetry
Knowledge@Wharton 21,673"Dana Gioia (pronounced Joy-a) claims to be the only person in history who went to business school to be a poet. ...
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Muhammad Yunus: a World of Three Zeroes
Knowledge@Wharton 19,032According to Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, a world without poverty or environmental devastation does not ...
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Designing for the Circular Economy
Knowledge@Wharton North America 18,810What do you do with a toaster when you no longer want it? Until recently, no one thought about that question until ...
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Grit: the Power of Passion & Perseverance
Knowledge@Wharton 18,683What is grit? In this interview, University of Pennyslvania psychology professor Angela Duckworth explains that grit ...
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The Benefits of Being a Misfit
Knowledge@wharton 17,505When master biographer Walter Isaacson sits down to chat with bestselling author Adam Grant, he shares secrets and ...
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The 'Magic Strings' of Mitch Albom
Knowledge@Wharton 17,360"Ever since I wrote Tuesdays with Morrie, I've had people who have said to me, 'That book changed my life.' You ...
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Avoiding the I'll-Give-Back-Later Trap
Knowledge@Wharton 16,075Steve Davis is president and CEO of PATH, an international nonprofit whose goal is to help communities break ...
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A School & a Future for Blind Children
Knowledge@Wharton 15,767Sabriye Tenberken and Paul Kronenberg are co-founders of a school for blind teenagers in Tibet. Tenberken, who was ...
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The Why Behind Asking Why: the Science of Curiosity
Knowledge@Wharton 15,273Curiosity is a fundamental human trait. Everyone is curious, but the object and degree of that curiosity is ...
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Peak Performance: Lessons in Leadership From Mountain Guides
Knowledge@Wharton North America 14,849Leadership is needed in times of upheaval and transition -- but what are the qualities it takes to be an effective ...
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Nicholas Kristof's 'Path' to More Effective Giving
Knowledge@Wharton 14,144When deciding how to use your time and money to address the worlds problems, you may struggle with how to use those ...
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How to Build Trust and Lead Effectively
Knowledge@Wharton 13,809Cameron Stauth believes that the world is in the worst crisis of trust that we have ever seen, and that it manifests ...
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Business Lessons From the World of Improv
Knowledge@Wharton 8,542While few of us associate the world of business with the world of improv, the two may not be as far apart as you ...
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Surprising Lessons From the Science of Motivation
Knowledge@Wharton 8,416"There are plenty of books that teach how to influence the behavior of others, but anyone who's set a personal goal ...
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Turning Waste Streams Into Value Streams
Knowledge@Wharton 8,297The vision of Sustainability 3.0 is a circular economy that mimics our natural ecosystem: the "waste" from products ...
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To Become a Better Leader, Question Your Assumptions
Knowledge@Wharton 6,659"When Wharton management professor Adam Grant sat down to write his new book, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What ...
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Empowering the World One Bicycle at a Time
Knowledge@Wharton 6,168Knowledge@Wharton and Michale Useem interview Dave Neiswander, CEO of World Bicycle Relief on their unique business ...
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The 'Magic Strings' of Mitch Albom
Knowledge@Wharton 5,504"Ever since I wrote Tuesdays with Morrie, I've had people who have said to me, 'That book changed my life.' You ...
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