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Why Good Managers Are So Rare - HBR Blog Network
Posted March 18, 2014
NOTE FROM JIM:
What are the top traits of great managers, managers who drive organizational performance? Gallop identified the five top characteristics and determined that only ten percent of people have them.
To tickle your curiosity, see an HBR article that discusses the Gallop data and HBR’s recommendations for using this knowledge to develop and hold competitive advantage.
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Why Good Managers Are So Rare - HBR Blog Network
by Randall Beck and James Harter
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back to topPosted April 1, 2014
NOTE FROM JIM
New York Times Op Ed writer David Brooks recently wrote about the “Employer’s Creed”. The piece resonated deeply with me. See if you agree. To tickle your curiosities see the excerpts below. To capture the wisdom and power of David’s thoughts, access the full article.
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If you follow these principles in your hiring practices, you’ll be sending a signal about what sort of person gets ahead. You may correct some of the perversities at the upper reaches ...
Clumsy Feedback Is a Poorly Wrapped Gift - HBR
Posted April 17, 2014
NOTE FROM JIM
In a recent blog post on HBR, organizational psychologist Roger Schwartz provides exceptional advice on embracing negative feedback in ways that ultimately enhance one’s own performance.
He writes, “When you accept a person’s gift [of feedback] – no matter how poorly wrapped – by responding with curiosity and compassion, you are giving a gift in return. You are creating the trust needed to talk about things that really matter and that will lead to better results....
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