Harvard Business

DECEMBER 10, 2018

A client (who I’ll call “Alex”) asked me to help him prepare to interview for a CEO role with a start-up. It was the first time he had interviewed for the C-level, and when we met, he was visibly agitated. Caiaimage/Andy Roberts/Getty Images. Let’s go back to Alex as an example of how to execute this.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 15, 2016

Given that I’m a happiness researcher, you might think I’d strive to help people eliminate unhappiness in their careers. But unhappiness actually serves a crucial function, signaling the need for change, prompting us to switch companies or fields, or even just motivating us to secretly update our resume at home (just in case).

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

Our data included executives’ scores on personality and emotional intelligence assessments, interviews with their managers and HR, and our case notes. In each case, one of us served as the executive coach and worked with the executive to set their individual goals.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

As an aspiring PM, there are three primary considerations when evaluating the role: Core Competencies , Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and Company Fit. Some examples of these competencies include: Conducting customer interviews and user testing. Emotional Intelligence (EQ). Running design sprints. Company Fit.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

Empathy at work creates psychological safety, which research by Amy Edmondson of Harvard demonstrates is created when managers are inclusive and humble and encourage their staff to speak up or ask for help. Our brains respond more positively to empathic bosses, as neuroimaging research confirms. Eye contact.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

How to Get the Most Out of an Informational Interview. who agrees that emotional intelligence is what he looked for in a new management hire. And if that’s the case, you want your decision to hire or promote them to be a successful one. You and Your Team Series. Career Transitions. Is It Time to Quit Your Job?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2018

Most existing research has thus focused on failure as an inhibitor of entrepreneurship. Our research shows a more nuanced picture: Fear can inhibit and motivate. We interviewed 65 entrepreneurs in the UK and Canada. We defined fear of failure as a temporary cognitive and emotional reaction to a threat to potential achievement.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The challenge, she said, was that these managers were highly proficient in their own disciplines such as finance, marketing, research, clinical care, and insurance reimbursement — and had demonstrated that they could manage people in these areas — but she needed them to be “bigger” leaders.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 26, 2018

When researchers in China gave a survey to 197 adults before and after traveling, they uncovered similar influences on the exertion of effort to attend to pronounced cultural differences in normalized values and behavioral patterns in everyday social interactions. The Data-Driven Case for Vacation. You and Your Team Series.

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