"Restaurateur Tries to Censor Yelp Review: Epic Failure" by Reem Abeidoh. This blog entry could serve as a case study for Blog Rules, a book discussed in an earlier post. The gist is that someone wrote a negative review of a restaurant on a social networking site called Yelp. The restaurant manager tried to bully the writer into changing the review. The reviewer told others about the intimidation effort and the restaurant and the manager were vilified in countless blogs. A public relations nightmare.
"Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game" by Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn. This pdf by two Harvard researchers is available for download here. The researchers attempt to explain why women tend to negotiate lower starting salaries in management positions. Gender stereotypes are found to still play a powerful role in the workplace.
"Getting Down to the Business of Creativity" by Julia Hanna summarizes the efforts of Harvard Business School researchers to gauge the importance of creativity in the success of entrepreneurs and managers. Once again the managerial classes aspire to rise to the level of Arts majors. The conclusions tend to be banal: "People have their best days and do their best work when they are allowed to make progress." You mean flogging doesn't work? Damn.
"When Winning is Everything," by Deepak Malhotra, Gillian Ku, and J. Keith Murnighan. This Harvard Business Review article looks into the disastrous effects of "the primal urge to win" on decision making and offers tips on how to manage said urge.
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