Contributor: Michael Platt, PhD, Director, Wharton Neuroscience Initiative; James S. Riepe University Professor of Marketing, Neuroscience, and Psychology, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Nano Tools for Leaders® are fast, effective leadership tools that you can learn and start using in less than 15 minutes — with the potential to…Read More
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Nano Tool: Setting Better Goals: The Key to True Achievement
Contributor: Caroline Adams Miller; author of Getting Grit: The Evidence-based approach to Cultivating Passion, Perseverance, and Purpose. Nano Tools for Leaders® are fast, effective leadership tools that you can learn and start using in less than 15 minutes — with the potential to significantly impact your success as a leader and…Read More
Nano Tool: Work Less, Accomplish More
Contributor: Margaret H. Greenberg and Senia Maymin, PhD, executive coaches and authors of Profit from the Positive: Proven Leadership Strategies to Boost Productivity and Transform your Business. Nano Tools for Leaders® are fast, effective leadership tools that you can learn and start using in less than 15 minutes — with…Read More
New Executive Education Class for Senior Leaders
Today’s senior leaders need to think more strategically, communicate more persuasively, and act more decisively — all while developing the leadership of those around them. Wharton’s Executive Education’s Becoming a Leader of Leaders: Pathways for Success draws on new research and insights to provide you with strategies to strengthen your…Read More
Nano Tool: The Power of Awe
Contributor: Christopher Maxwell, PhD, Senior Fellow, Center for Leadership and Change Management, The Wharton School. Nano Tools for Leaders® are fast, effective leadership tools that you can learn and start using in less than 15 minutes — with the potential to significantly impact your success as a leader and the…Read More
Nano Tools: App Now Available and January Nano Tool
Wharton Nano Tool App Now Available Wharton Executive Education is pleased to now offer all Nano Tools in an app format on the Apple App Store. The Android version is coming soon. The app will allow you to filter according to date, topic, author, and keyword. It will also allow…Read More
The Aspen Institute Seminar
The Aspen Institute: A six-day Executive Seminar of Leadership, Values and the Good Society By Ethan S. Rafuse In 1647, England was a bitterly divided society. Among those who had taken the side of Parliament in its struggle with the crown, the question had arisen of just how far they…Read More
Nano Tool: The Benefits of Meditation: Better Choices, Better Outcomes
Contributor: Sigal Barsade, PhD., Joseph Frank Bernstein Professor of Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Nano Tools for Leaders® are fast, effective leadership tools that you can learn and start using in less than 15 minutes — with the potential to significantly impact your success as a leader and…Read More
How to Make Gamification Work in an Office
In 2011, a game called Foldit caused a sensation by solving a decades-old scientific mystery in just three weeks. Scientists have long struggled to determine the structure of a monkey enzyme that played a critical role in how the AIDS virus matured and spread. Knowing its structure would help in…Read More
Knowledge@Wharton: Gender Gap
To Close the Gender Gap, What Needs to Change -- Women or the System? Published March 27, 2013 Growing up in a suburb of Boston in the 1960s, Ilene Gordon had to ask for special permission from her junior high school principal to get out of home economics and take…Read More