Organizational Behavior

Effective People Think Simply

Following a simple set of rules can bring clarity during chaos.

March 25, 2016

| by Kathleen Eisenhardt

Stanford Graduate School of Business PhD alum Kathleen Eisenhardt, a professor at Stanford University’s School of Engineering, studied how product development teams burdened by a complicated set of rules frequently derail while teams with no rules at all never even get started.

 

Organizational Behavior , Management

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