Tag: managers
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When you think you know what you’re looking for.
In this undated video (probably 2008), Best Selling Author Malcolm Gladwell explains how we have a fundamental mismatch problem in how we assess which people will be successful in a given field. He starts with the differences between NBA scouting combine results and how players actually wind up fairing in the league and then goes on…
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Busy doesn’t equal Effective…
It’s a learned behavior. Odds are you had mentors or bosses who were forever putting out metaphorical fires. You learned something implicitly: Busy = productive. Scratch that. Busy = valued. It’s not true and odds are when you started out in your career you sensed it in your heart, if not your head. But the…
Robert H Myers 