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Mental Rehearsal: The Secret to Superior Performance

Your Voice of Encouragement

This mental practice, combined with intense physical practice, led to repeated Gold medals and the setting of world records during the 2008 and 2012 Olympic games. First I ‘see’ where I want the ball to finish. Then I ‘see’ it going there; its trajectory and landing.

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Case Study: Is It Ever OK to Break a Promise?

Harvard Business Review

Date: January 20, 2012 20:41. Date: January 23, 2012 14:18. Date: January 23, 2012 14:42. Manufacturing is not the most glamorous business, and MBA recruiters are known for tempting people into more “prestigious” careers. Date: January 23, 2012 17:52. Date: January 23, 2012 18:37. To: Patrick Fishburn, Asst.

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Why Do App Developers Still Live with Their Moms?

Harvard Business Review

With the virtual disappearance of major white-collar employers like Eastman Kodak and Westinghouse — once fairly reliable career on-ramps — young talent is focusing on entrepreneurship as a path forward. The Thiel Foundation president points out that “the safe career track is totally broken.” This is true.

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Praise Entrepreneurs, Not Cubicle Capitalists

Harvard Business Review

As the meeting progressed, it was clear that these Ivy-schooled individuals were slick, sharp, and well-structured. adults involved in start-ups hit a record 13% in 2012 , the White House proclaimed that " entrepreneurs are the engine of our economy " [PDF]. Career planning Entrepreneurship' You could almost smell the overhead.

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7 Policy Changes America Needs So People Can Work and Have Kids

Harvard Business Review

I recently published research from the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project , comparing Wharton’s Classes of 1992 and 2012. It’s worth noting that these percentages are essentially the same for both men and women, both in 1992 and in 2012. mean at the time — the average 2012 graduate planned to have only 1.7.

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The Bedraggled Return of the Organization Man

Harvard Business Review

Whyte described the American worker — in particular the white-collar worker — as an "organization man" out to build his career and his life around a single corporation. The employment-to-population ratio — the simplest of job-market metrics — shows a sharp drop for men in particular in the last recession.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

By now everyone knows the story: Kodak went into a free fall that led to bankruptcy in 2012 because it failed to respond to the disruption of digital technology — even though one of its own engineers invented a technology for capturing a digital image in 1975. Nothing about free fall is easy.