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Great Leaders Embrace Office Politics

Harvard Business

“I was universally liked across the company, a team player who put in more hours than anyone else,” she said. Jill was one more victim of what I call the “Kumbaya” school of leadership, which says that being open, trusting, authentic, and positive — and working really hard — is the key to getting ahead.

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People Don’t Want to Be Compared with Others in Performance Reviews. They Want to Be Compared with Themselves

Harvard Business

According to a survey of Fortune 1,000 companies done by the Corporate Executive Board (CEB), 66% of the employees were strongly dissatisfied with the performance evaluations they received in their organizations. Why are employees so frustrated about the way they are evaluated, despite all the time and money being spent on these evaluations?

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Transforming from a Good to Great Coach

Rick Conlow

Consider the potential for your team or company based on these tremendous results. It also highlighted that coaching is highly effective in developing leadership skills. Personnel Management: A study compared training alone to coaching and training. It found that training alone increased productivity 22.4%.

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Research: When Managers Are Overworked, They Treat Employees Less Fairly

Harvard Business

We varied the amount of time participants had to complete the task to simulate varying workloads–20 vs. 30 minutes for heavy vs. light workloads. When they had less time to complete the task, participants tended to prioritize the technical task (report to the boss), thus performing worse on their fairness task (employee memo).