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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.” Love and hate coexist, largely because peers view high performers as both threatening and beneficial to their careers. Often with good intentions, managers set up high performers as targets for sabotage, aggression, and exclusion.

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Five Secrets to Successful Rainmaking

First Friday Book Synopsis

Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.” Here is an excerpt from an article written by Melissa J.

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In other cases, they never learned these fundamentals or mastered them earlier in their career.

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The Right Kind of Stress Can Bond Your Team Together

Harvard Business Review

” During the first half of the documentary, we examined the NFL to see how people create happiness in an organization where the average career is 3.3 The military, sports teams, and Habitat for Humanity all give excellent examples for how we can reframe everyday stress to create a culture not only of meaning, but of high connection.

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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. Negotiation is not usually an individual sport. Special Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky. Build a talented, happy, and cohesive team. Build a common fact base.

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