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The Lie That Perfectionists Tell Themselves

Harvard Business

In fact, spending more time at work and on specific tasks can actually hurt our performance, reducing the quality of our work. emotional intelligence skills and the capacity to reason and solve problems ) and work engagement levels begin to decline, dragging down the quality of the work produced with it.

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How to Know If Someone Is Ready to Be a Manager

Harvard Business

For some real-world perspective on becoming a first-time manager, I reached out to my friend Dr. Jim Mitchell, a computer scientist who made the leap into management from an engineering position, eventually retiring as Vice President at Oracle Laboratories. How to Get the Most Out of an Informational Interview. Rebecca Knight.

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The Right Way to Check Someone’s References

Harvard Business

Be sure to ask referees about the candidate’s soft skills and social and emotional-intelligence-based capabilities, says Fernández-Aráoz. But what you learn will help you get a sense for whether the candidate is “a cultural fit” for your organization.