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January 16, 2014 Research: Using a Smartphone After 9 pm Leaves Workers Disengaged By Christopher M. Barnes Put the device down.

Managing yourself Your Employees Want the Negative Feedback You Hate to Give by Jack Zenger Especially if they are older workers, or confident ones. Product development Stop Trying to Predict Which New Products Will Succeed by N. Taylor Thompson Focus instead on recognizing as soon as possible whether it is actually succeeding. Operations Moving to a Safety Culture in Mining by Cynthia Carroll The former CEO of Anglo-American on reducing deaths in the industry. Decision making Take the Bias Out of Strategy Decisions by Freek Vermeulen Methods more reliable than your "instincts." Personal effectiveness Why We Love Narcissists by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic How we get bamboozled by charisma. Sustainability Chile's Attempt to Cut Traffic Meets the Law of Unintended Consequences by The Daily Stat The new hub-and-spoke system required many more transfers, increasing average daily commuting time. Leadership The CEO of Ciena on Surviving an Industry Collapse by Dan McGinn Gary Smith describes how his company survived, regrouped, and resumed its growth.

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