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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The future of work is the work itself, not where and when the work takes place. Workplace flexibility programs are already catching on and will soon become standardized as more millennials enter the workplace. All workers, not just millennials, want …
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If you’ve been in the workforce for longer than a year or two, you’ve probably had some odd coworkers. But how do yours stack up against the winners of our weirdest coworker contest? I recently asked readers to tell us …
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Remember when you were a kid and summertime meant hanging out with friends, sleeping late and going on vacation? Now, summertime means you’ve got to try and figure out how to get all your work done before you take time …
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