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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

CEB research says that when we take into account how much money organizations are investing in their performance appraisal technology and how much time managers are spending to evaluate their employees, on average U.S. We call those temporal comparison evaluations. We call those social comparison evaluations.

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Mindfulness in the midst of a busy day: becoming aware of first responses

Brimstone Consulting

Practice not doing anything about the sensory input; watch for judgments or comparisons, or the urge to fix or do anything. By the time we’re usually aware, we’ve already done or said something that, on examination, we didn’t ever choose consciously to do. If you hear a birdsong and it is pleasant to you, note “pleasant.”

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Why You Need an Untouchable Day Every Week

Harvard Business

When I worked as Director of Leadership Development at Walmart, my days were full of meetings. I now have research calls and phone interviews; lunches with literary agents and web developers; conference calls about book titles and publishing schedules; and radio interviews and media prep calls. Everybody’s were!

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