Outsmart Your Own Biases

Jack B. Soll, Katherine L. Milkman, John W. Payne, Harvard Business Review, May 2015 When making decisions, we all rely too heavily on intuition and use flawed reasoning sometimes. But it’s possible to fight these pernicious sources of bias by learning...

“Kindness Amidst Conflict: Respect Across Diversity”

Davia Temin shares her speech on “Kindness Amidst Conflict,” presented at the Girl Scouts of Greater New York’s 2015 Gala, and states that “while we are calling for true diversity at every level of our society, if we do not accord respect to...

The Secret to Smart Groups: It’s Women

Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, January 18, 2015 A fleet of MIT studies finds that women are much better at knowing what their colleagues are really thinking. It’s another reason to expect the gender wage gap to eventually flip. […read more]