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Generative AI Has a Big Scary Side Effect. Here’s the Cure.
By Chris Weller and David Rock Imagine you’re the CEO of a company. You just hired 100 new managers whose only job is to walk around the office and pop
December 17, 2025
As organizations reexamine their workforce amid AI advancements and downsizing, we wonder if it’s also time to reexamine the super chicken theory. In biologist William Muir’s famous experiment, a group of high-performing hens that were housed together pecked each other (sometimes to death) rather than inspiring each other to produce more eggs. A similar idea – that you can’t have more than a few top people on the same team – remains widespread in many organizations. But maybe it’s time to rethink that notion.
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By Chris Weller and David Rock Imagine you’re the CEO of a company. You just hired 100 new managers whose only job is to walk around the office and pop
The rise of AI agents found in all corners of the workplace, including high-stakes conversations – where bots can sometimes represent as many as half the expected group – is
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In 2007, David and Lisa Rock and their team had been working in leadership development and executive coaching for ten years, when David coined the term “NeuroLeadership.”ef
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