When One Person’s High Performance Creates Resentment in Your Team
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 21, 2017
As the Japanese proverb warns : “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.” Our evidence from both the field study and the experiment points to a clear social downside of high achievement, as peers were more likely to belittle, insult, and damage the reputation of high performers. Such contradictions take a toll.
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