Managers, especially new ones, are often unprepared for the job because they are so used to being an individual contributor and not responsible for other people. The hardest skills in business (and life) are working with other people because everyone …
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A reader asks: I was recently promoted from within my team to team manager. I formed friendships with many of my coworkers prior to being promoted and would occasionally participate in game nights and the like with them. Now, however, I …
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We all make decisions in different ways. This third installment of our three-part series on Decision Making (See here for Part 1, and here for Part 2) will help you determine the type of decision maker you are and includes a …
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If you’ve ever hired the wrong person – or inherited someone else’s bad hire – you know the costs of hiring mistakes: huge amounts of time and energy spent addressing the problem, as well as the opportunity cost of not …
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Are you an idea monkey? According to G. Michael Maddock, author of “Free the Idea Monkey…to Focus on What Matters Most,” an idea monkey is someone who can produce lots of new thoughts, concepts or ideas on demand and is …
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This post is part of a 3-Part series on the topic of Biases in Decision Making. Please click here for Part 1. The third installment will be posted next week. Research in behavioral economics and social psychology continuously shows us …
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You’ve probably heard of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator even if you haven’t taken it yourself already. According to the test’s website, the MBTI is one of the most widely-used psychological instruments for describing and measuring personality characteristics, and is used …
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