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Stop Setting Goals You Don’t Actually Care About

Harvard Business

Many people fail on their professional development goals for the year because they take on a lot of goals — goals that they feel they “should” do but ultimately don’t energize them. For example, this year, I decided to make writing a book proposal for a new book my primary professional development goal.

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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. organizations spend $3,000 per year, per employee.

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Hiring an NSF Research Project Manager to Start Immediately

NeoAcademic

Major Responsibilities Research Team Coordination (35%) Maintain meeting minutes while attending project and laboratory meetings Assign and follow up upon assigned tasks with team members within online project management software (e.g., Google Docs and sheets) Maintain integrity of confidential data (e.g.,

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Transforming from a Good to Great Coach

Rick Conlow

Inadequate Feedback: Managers may not provide timely and constructive feedback to employees, which is a crucial aspect of coaching. Without regular feedback, employees may not know where they stand or what they need to improve, hindering their development. Lack of Empathy: Let us face it, some managers just do not care.

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Great Leaders Embrace Office Politics

Harvard Business

Jill should have spent much more time managing up. She should have better managed decision makers, her boss, her image, and her own career. So why wasn’t Jill spending more time managing up, especially if it was in her own self-interest? What should Jill have done differently?

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

Harvard Business

Similarly, managers have acknowledge d that they behave insensitively towards employees or act less fairly because they are “overloaded” or lack time. In our paper, we sought to develop a more rigorous understanding of whether and why overworked bosses are less likely to treat employees fairly.

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You Know You Need More Sleep. Here’s How to Get It.

Harvard Business

In a recent example, Elon Musk (currently serving as the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink, all at the same time) spent the full 24 hours of his 47 th birthday at work. In extolling his own work ethic, President Donald Trump notes : “Don’t sleep any more than you have to. Marissa Mayer (former CEO of Yahoo!)

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