“Forget presentations, handshakes and power suits: Workers looking to make the biggest impact in a business meeting should instead focus on using a very specific set of words. “Cynthia Rudin, a professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management and MIT student Been Kim examined data from meetings and the impact of […]
I’ve long felt that so-called “oddball” interview questions are just plain stupid. They do little, if anything, to improve applicant vetting and selection and make the people that ask them — and the companies they work for — seem pompous, boorish, and ridiculous. Glassdoor, “a free jobs and career community that offers the world an
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“While many managers assume that their team members would like to work less, the dirty little secret of corporate America is that many people would actually like more challenging jobs” Just look at these numbers based on a survey conducted by Lee Hecht Harrison: 62 percent of people say they “often” feel underutilized in their jobs
“Folk wisdom tells us to “sleep on it” – that after a break we’ll return to the challenge refreshed and with a new perspective. Psychological research backs this up. Staying in the same mental domain appeared to tie up [one’s] unconscious, robbing [us of] its ability to work behind the scenes.” Continue reading at: 99U.
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In their research for “The Art of Doing: How Superachievers Do What They Do and How They Do It So Well,” Camille Sweeney and Josh Gosfield interviewed 36 performers that climbed to the tops of their various fields. “We didn’t want to theorize about success,” says Gosfield. “We went straight to the source, finding the most amazing
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