Not long ago, the ability to create smart data visualizations, or dataviz, was a nice-to-have skill. For the most part, it benefited design- and data-minded managers who made a deliberate decision to invest in acquiring it. That’s changed. Now visual communication is a must-have skill for all managers, because more and more often, it’s the [...]

Despite the huge impact executives can have on their organizations, failure rates remain high. Prescriptions for what to do continue to fall short. So we wondered: If we closely studied the executives who succeed in top jobs once appointed, could we identify distinguishing features that set them apart and defined their success? They know the [...]

The research: Luis F. Martinez of the Nova School of Business and Economics and his research partner, Marcel Zeelenberg of Tilburg University, asked people to play a classic economic game in which two partners transfer money back and forth. The amount exchanged indicates their level of trust. Before playing, some subjects were primed to feel [...]