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People Don’t Want to Be Compared with Others in Performance Reviews. They Want to Be Compared with Themselves

Harvard Business Review

According to a survey of Fortune 1,000 companies done by the Corporate Executive Board (CEB), 66% of the employees were strongly dissatisfied with the performance evaluations they received in their organizations. This is unfortunate considering the amount of resources that organizations devote to conducting performance evaluations.

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Petraeus and the Rise of Narcissistic Leaders

Harvard Business Review

They are more action-oriented, pursue their own goals, and exhibit disinhibited behavior in part because they believe that rules don't apply to them; they are special and invulnerable. There is a simple power story often told about such behavior: research shows that people with more power tend to pay less attention to others.

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Do Your Company’s Incentives Reward Bad Behavior?

Harvard Business Review

Or do you believe that this is an unattainable, unaffordable goal in view of the financial and operational challenges your organization currently faces? Effective leaders don’t sit idly by while hoping their people will behave ethically and perform competently. Next, make a list of the behaviors you are currently measuring.

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Overthrow Yourself

Harvard Business Review

Roger Martin has elegantly and brilliantly argued why maximizing shareholder value's a destructive goal ; Jack Welch has called the single-minded pursuit of shareholder value the " dumbest idea in the world ;" Teresa Amabile has cogently chronicled why higher purpose leads to better performance; Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Tom Peters have both found time (..)

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