Most common career mistakes: What are the top 5?
n't make these errors I've posted about the top five career regrets but what are the most common career mistakes people make? Via Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance: To shed light on individual behavior during job changes, we conducted a survey of over 400 search consultants from more than 50 industries in mid-2008. The respondents, 67 percent of whom had more than ten years of experience and 70 percent of whom recruited stars at the…
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What’s the secret to working with difficult people?
bsp; What's the best advice on working with difficult people? I recently covered clinical psychologist Albert Bernstein's no-nonsense advice on office politics (and how much it lined up with the research on the subject.) Here are his brass tacks thoughts on working with difficult people in the office - specifically bullying bosses, control freaks and narcissists. The Bullying Boss Via Am I The Only Sane One Working Here?: 101 Solutions for Surviving Office Insanity: Ask Yourself, “Why Am I Still…
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Checklist: the 5 secrets to winning at office politics
What are the secrets to winning at office politics? The research and the experts agree on what it takes to win at office politics. Jeffrey Pfeffer, author of Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don’t brings the academic research and Albert Bernstein, clinical psychologist and author of Am I The Only Sane One Working Here?: 101 Solutions for Surviving Office Insanity brings 30 years of one-on-one work with execs. It's eerie how much what they say lines up. So what do you…
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This Is The Number One Predictor of Success In Life
lf control predicts success even better than IQ. From Charles Duhigg’s excellent book The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business: Dozens of studies show that willpower is the single most important keystone habit for individual success... Students who exerted high levels of willpower were more likely to earn higher grades in their classes and gain admission into more selective schools. They had fewer absences and spent less time watching television and more hours on homework.…
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How to find your passion
w to find your passion has been an eternal question. First it's important to ask "What is a passion?" Researchers found there are two types of passion: harmonious and obsessive. The latter is a bad thing, more like an addiction or being a stalker. We'll focus on the former, thanks. So what defines harmonious passion? Robert Vallerand and colleagues came up with a "Passion Scale." How many of these are true of an activity you engage in? Via Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined:…
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Can a messy office make you more creative?
at messy office might be inspiring great ideas... New research shows that an organized office might make you behave better but a messy office can lead you to more creative breakthroughs: Order and disorder are prevalent in both nature and culture, which suggests that each environ confers advantages for different outcomes. Three experiments tested the novel hypotheses that orderly environments lead people toward tradition and convention, whereas disorderly environments encourage breaking with tradition and convention — and that both settings…
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Harvard professor Francesca Gino explains how to be a better person
Francesca Gino For this interview I spoke with Francesca Gino. She's a professor at Harvard Business School and the author of Sidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed, and How We Can Stick to the Plan. We discussed being a better person, giving good gifts, smart decision making, the power of introverted leaders and how rituals can improve our lives. ———–——— Reminders are the secret to being a better person Francesca Gino: Even good people can end up doing the wrong thing. We…
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9 things you need to do to be seen as a fair leader:
at makes a fair leader? Being a fair leader is no easy task. Albert Bernstein is a business consultant and a practicing psychotherapist with a knack for teasing out how fundamental human drives play out in the office. He gives deep insight into why we behave the way we do in a work context and the hurdles we need to overcome to best get things accomplished. Via Sacred Bull: The Inner Obstacles That Hold You Back at Work and How to Overcome Them:…
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