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Research: We’re Not Very Self-Aware, Especially at Work

Harvard Business Review

Use external benchmarks: measure how someone’s self-view compares to others’ views and measure how assessments directly relate to outcomes like increased learning and job performance. Will Rogers rightly once quipped, “It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.”

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The Big Picture of Business: Fine Wine, Aged Cheese and Valuable Antiques. Professionals Who Go the Distance.

Strategy Driven

A professional’s career and their collected Body of Work encompass time, energy, resources, perseverance and lots of commitment in order to produce. Their market value is set by the seller, who often is an appreciator or, at the least, has a profit motive. Who should be the arbitrator and benchmark? Commitment to Career.

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The Big Picture of Business – Fine Wine, Aged Cheese and Valuable Antiques: Part I

Strategy Driven

A professional’s career and their collected Body of Work encompass time, energy, resources, perseverance and lots of commitment in order to produce. The multiple parts of a successful company require care, attention, grooming and benchmarking. Who should be the arbitrator and benchmark? Commitment to Career.