Leadership : Page 7

Pitch quality of CEO voices rests entirely on gender

August 29, 2022 A new study reveals the effect of pitch quality of CEO voices may rest entirely on gender.

Employee turnover costs more than you think

August 22, 2022 In 1914, Ford began paying his factory workers $5 a day for eight hours of work on the assembly line.

51% of supply chain leaders increased number of network locations

August 15, 2022 According to a Gartner, survey among 403 supply chain leaders in the second quarter of 2022, 74% of supply chain leaders made changes to size and number of locations in their supply chain network in the past two years.

If company overcomes post-IPO innovation slump, it will survive longer

August 8, 2022 Researchers from Goethe University, Duke University, and London Business School published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that explains why some companies remain innovative even after they go public, while many others do not.

62% of consumers will stop buying from brands that compromise products to cut costs

August 1, 2022 Sixty-two percent of consumers say they\'ll stop buying from brands who change product size (“shrinkflation”) or quality (“skimpflation”) to cut costs, according to Gartner.

Companies must invest to avoid supply chain scandal or pay the price in lost consumers

July 25, 2022 If a supply chain scandal does hit, customers want companies they buy from to act—and a combination of actions, not limited to firing their supplier—is the best way to minimize lost consumers. Apologies are not enough.

How awards, recognition decrease inventors' creativity

July 18, 2022 New research from Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, has identified one reason why some first-time producers struggle to repeat their initial creative productions while others go on to continually produce creative works.

Keeping employees is harder than ever. And we don't have good news

July 11, 2022 How to keep employees was always a crucial question for every business. There is a way but the future is dark.

How much is 'great resignation' costing companies?

June 27, 2022 On average, labor expenses make up 57% of operating costs at S&P 500 companies, according to MyLogIQ.

New theory of decision-making seeks to explain why humans don't make optimal choices

June 20, 2022 A new theory of economic decision-making from Mina Mahmoudi, a lecturer in the Department of Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, offers an explanation as to why humans, in general, make decisions that are simply adequate, not optimal.

For a smooth-running economy, rule of law matters

June 13, 2022 Countries in which courts more easily enforce contracts see less economic volatility overall than nations that don\'t adhere as well to the rule of law.

Change of mind can often be best decision

June 6, 2022 Whether or not changes of mind are behaviorally beneficial has been the focus of a special review by cognitive neuroscientists, Professor Jason Mattingley and Dr Dragan Rangelov, at the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI).