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When collaboration fails

It is commonly assumed that participation and collaboration produce superior outcomes to those produced by isolation and insulation. That is, a democratic style of management results in better service delivery than an autocratic style. Well, a recent study in a hospital setting questions the generality of that assumption.

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Why we rationalise the irrational?

When we make mistakes, we create fictions that absolve us of responsibility, restoring our belief that we are smart, moral, and right—a belief that often keeps us on a course that is dumb, immoral, and wrong. However, is this conscious behaviour?

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Sleep loss and emotional fatigue

While past studies have revealed that sleep loss can impair the immune system and brain processes such as learning and memory, there has been surprisingly little research into why sleep deprivation affects our emotions. Without sleep, the emotional centres of our brains dramatically overreact to bad experiences, research now reveals.

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Too emotional – good or bad?

Do your heart-strings influence your decision making more than your purse-strings? Do you think more with your heart than with your head? Conventional management wisdom urges the avoidance of feelings and encourages the use of rational thinking when it comes to decision making. From this perspective, decision making should be a matter of calculation, not intuition. Now, new research challenges this popular belief.

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