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Professor, best-selling author, and innovative management expert questioning the fundamentals of management practices
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Dr. David Burkus has worked with multiple Fortune 500 companies where he used his extensive knowledge of research on management practices in order to guide his clients. His previous clients include Google, Microsoft, Stryker, Viacom, and Novo Nordisk. Dr. David is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and Inc magazine, and his work has been featured in the Financial Times and CBS This Morning.
Throughout his career, Burkus has found that not only are many of our fundamental management practices wrong and misguided, but they can be downright counter-productive. These misguided practices include the practice of keeping our pay secret, a topic which Burkus has given a TEDx talk on:
Dr. David Burkus is a best-selling author and a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review. When he is not speaking, he works as an associate professor of leadership and innovation at Oral Roberts University. He is a highly regarded and increasingly influential business school professor who challenges many of the long-established principles of business management.
David’s book “Under New Management” shares more of these research-backed insights on which business management principles work and which don’t.
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Why is it that children act so creatively and so few adults engage their creativity?
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