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When One Person’s High Performance Creates Resentment in Your Team

Harvard Business Review

As the Japanese proverb warns : “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.” more cooperative or a more competitive group norms) and manipulate the individual performance feedback after tasks. Love and hate coexist, largely because peers view high performers as both threatening and beneficial to their careers.

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A Great Negotiator’s Essential Advice

Harvard Business Review

During his remarkable career, described in detail here , Koh played central roles in some of the most complex international negotiations ever held. Special Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky. Tommy Koh became the youngest ambassador ever appointed to the United Nations and later served as Singapore’s Ambassador to the United States.

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Specialization is a Journey, Not a Destination

QAspire

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

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