Does more money make you happier? Two prominent researchers had contradictory findings. A 2023 adversarial collaboration resolved the conflict: the answer depends on who you are, and for the happiest people, the relationship between income and wellbeing keeps rising with no ceiling in sight.
Conscientiousness is one of the most trusted predictors in personnel selection. A 2023 meta-analytic review finds that barely 12 percent of the supporting research was conducted under realistic hiring conditions, leaving the real-world validity of the measure more uncertain than its reputation suggests.
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AI is already handling routine management. A 2023 opinion piece argues the assumption that human leadership is safe from automation deserves serious challenge, and that business education has not yet reckoned with what that means.
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A 2024 debate in organisational psychology asks whether selection tests are being systematically undervalued due to how their effectiveness is calculated. One side says yes, and proposes a correction that makes the numbers look considerably more impressive. The other side agrees with the conclusion but argues the correction answers the wrong question.
Attention is widely assumed to decline with age. A 2024 study testing older and younger adults across 11 attention tasks finds the reality is far more complicated, and that the general decline narrative does not hold up under careful scrutiny.
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Passion at work is almost universally celebrated. A 2024 study tracking nearly 34,000 daily observations finds a less comfortable truth: passion is also associated with overconfidence about how well you are actually performing.
