Colloquium: Russell Johnson, Michigan State University - https://broad.msu.edu/profile/rjohnson/ 

In our lives, privately or in our work context, acceptance or decline of change is omnipresent. Either when new policies affect us (new organizational policies, national laws) or when we ourselves want to stir change. However, in general, many people do...

Over the summer I read a book that challenged some of my beliefs about my own research field. The book ‘Antifragile’ [1], written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a controversial Lebanese-American philosopher, statistician, former trader and risk analyst, deals...

Colloquium: Niranjan Janardhanan, London School of Economics (https://www.lse.ac.uk/management/people/academic-staff/njanardhanan)

D66 gaat strijden voor een tijdelijk vrouwenquotum. De Technische Universiteit Eindhoven kreeg internationale aandacht voor haar besluit tijdelijk alleen nog vrouwen aan te stellen. Rianne Letschert, de net tot topvrouw van het jaar uitgeroepen rector van...

After years of research, it is an established consensus that in order for the organisation to adapt, thrive and innovate, their operation must balance between exploration and exploitation. Exploration refers to activities focused on discovering and...

Colloquium: Ute Stephan, King's Business School - London (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/ute-stephan)

Diversity and inclusion initiatives are being designed and implemented by organizations more than ever before. However, many of these initiatives do not work, or oftentimes only work in very limited contexts (Kalev & Dobbin, 2018). The way how...

Veel kwaad in de wereld is gedaan door mensen met goede intenties.

Heb jij zinvol werk of ben jij één van diegenen die haar werk volslagen zinloos vindt? Onlangs publiceerde David Graeber zijn nieuwste boek onder de titel ‘Bullshit Jobs’ (1). In dit boek doet hij verslag van zijn antropologisch onderzoek naar het fenomeen...