Making a backup plan undermines performance

• Autores: Alison Beard
• Localización: Harvard business review, ISSN 0017-8012, Vol. 94, Nº 9, 2016
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article presents an interview with Wisconsin School of Business professor Jihae Shin who co-authored a research study with fellow business professor Katherine Milkman which promised to provide energy bars to university students that performed well on a sentence-unscrambling project. Research regarding backup plans and the psychological aspects of business is examined, along with the likelihood of succeeding at business-related tasks. Cognitive fatigue is assessed