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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 Senior Executives Find Time to Be Creative

Harvard Business

The number-one attribute CEOs look for in their incoming workforce (according to an IBM survey of more than 1,500 CEOs across 33 industries and 60 countries) is not discipline, integrity, intelligence, or emotional intelligence. It’s creativity. And for that, you need highly creative employees.