How To Find The Perfect Job For You
ould you follow your passion? It may not be that easy unless we can all be athletes and artists: Via So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love: In fact, less than 4 percent of the total identified passions had any relation to work or education, with the remaining 96 percent describing hobby-style interests such as sports and art. Chase money? Income doesn’t affect job satisfaction at all and job satisfaction affects income more than…
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6 Secrets Of Top Performing Work Teams
n't just throw the best people together. How members get along is far more important than their capacities as individuals. What makes for smart teams? It’s not average IQ. It’s social skills. From MIT: A new study published in Science found that three factors were significantly correlated with a group’s collective intelligence — in other words, its ability to perform a variety of tasks collectively, from solving puzzles to negotiating. The three factors are: the average social sensitivity of the members of the group, the extent to which…
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This Body Language Makes You Look Like A Leader
's important to balance the appearance of power and warmth. Via The Silent Language of Leaders: How Body Language Can Help–or Hurt–How You Lead: When first introduced to a leader, we immediately and unconsciously assess him or her for warmth and authority. Obviously the most appealing leaders are seen to encompass both qualities, and the least effective leaders are those we regard as cold and inept. But as Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile described in an aptly titled article, “Brilliant but…
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Can one personality trait determine your future?
search is pointing to conscientiousness as the one-trait-to-rule-them-all in terms of future success, both career-wise and personal. Via How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character: "It would actually be nice if there were some negative things that went along with conscientiousness," Roberts told me. "But at this point it's emerging as one of the primary dimensions of successful functioning across the lifespan. It really goes cradle to grave in terms of how people do." What is it? Basically,…
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Here’s The Secret To Efficient, Fast Teamwork
might be to forget about trying to be fast at all and to just focus on being smooth. A Formula One pit crew -- a group that depends on efficient, fast teamwork -- found that they weren't at top speed when they concentrated on speed. It was when they emphasized functioning smoothly as a group that they made their best times. Via Oliver Burkeman's wonderful The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking: Bosses are more frequently persuaded,…
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The 10 Biggest Mistakes You Can Make In A Job Negotiation
Not Negotiating Via The Essentials of Job Negotiations: Proven Strategies for Getting What You Want: ...the overarching theme to successful job negotiations is to be respectful and reasonable at all times. Be sure to keep this guiding principle before you, and then jump in. There is some truth to the adage that you get half of what you ask for, and none of what you don't. 2) Not preparing effectively for the job negotiation Via The Essentials of Job Negotiations:…
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Are psychopaths more likely to become criminals… or CEOs?
ny psychopathic traits are more common in business leaders than in mentally disturbed criminals. Via The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success: In 2005, Belinda Board and Katarina Fritzon of the University of Surrey conducted a survey to find out precisely what it was that made business leaders tick. What, they wanted to know, were the key facets of personality that separated those who turn left when boarding an airplane from those…
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Flow: The #1 Secret To Enjoying Your Work
u want to be experiencing "flow." It's when you're so wrapped up in what you're doing that the world fades away: Flow is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity... The hallmark of flow is a feeling of spontaneous joy, even rapture, while performing a task although flow is also described... as a deep focus on nothing but the activity – not even…
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