Weissbourd is a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Kennedy School of Government. He directs the Making Caring Common Project. Murphy is a United States Senator ...

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Americans gravitated toward individualism as people spread out in a new land that seemed wide-open with many opportunities. Many had to make individual decisions to come to America in the first place.

Objectives and key results (OKRs) are a popular goal-setting framework that has been used by many large companies. I've found the framework extremely effective for measuring success on a team level, ...

Teamwork and individualism are particularly interesting human characteristics because despite being antonyms, they are both universally valued and their importance to society is considered a truism.

For anyone watching the second series of Big Little Lies starring Meryl Streep and Reese Witherspoon, amongst others, you will recall a scene in the third episode where an attentive group of children ...

Individualism is characterized by self-reliance and loose ties between individuals, whereas collectivism is characterized by interdependence between individuals and the subordination of individual ...