Leadership & Management
Effective People Think Simply
Following a simple set of rules can bring clarity during chaos.
March 25, 2016
| by
Kathleen Eisenhardt
Stanford Graduate School of Business PhD alum Kathleen Eisenhardt, a professor at Stanford University’s School of Engineering, studied how product development teams burdened by a complicated set of rules frequently derail while teams with no rules at all never even get started.
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