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5 Critical Skills You Will Need to Hit the Ground Running After College

Leading Blog

Selingo has distilled a lot of wisdom into five often overlapping skills needed to succeed in your career and life. The book provides much more detail and practical advice for career and life on many fronts and well worth making them time to consider. The recent graduates who succeed in their careers are flexible about how they learn.

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You'll Never Know Until You Ask :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Let’s look at the situation of a salary negotiation or performance review. How often in your career have you held back from asking for something (a promotion, flex time, a raise, a new office, etc) because you feared rejection? Women are much more likely than men to take a “no” as a personal rejection and final answer.

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A Guilty Conscience = A Great Hire??? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

The study was conducted by administering a standard psychological test that measures the tendency to feel guilt to 150 workers at a Fortune 500 firm and compared the results with their performance reviews. The link between guilt and performance is clearly there. The findings? Translation: Guilt is good!!

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How to Create Millennial Leaders in Your Organization

Great Leadership By Dan

Managers feel that their millennial employees have unrealistic salary/compensation expectations (51%), a poor work ethic (47%), and are easily distracted (46%). Many organizations don''t offer an annual performance review and most don''t even offer a quarterly one, based on our new research. Give them constant feedback.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

Instead of formal performance reviews, he regularly engaged in short conversations, focusing on key initiatives. He also forced partners and distributors to commit in writing to uphold IBM's strict ethical standards. Palmisano once said, "The CEO is not the brand! He's personable, but blunt. It is not about you.

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March 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership Blog points out “there should be no surprises at annual performance review time.” In Performance Reviews Made Effective , Wally offers sound advice that will not only make them more effective, but also helpful instead of painful. Valuing Human Capital.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

These are my considered opinions, having conducted Performance Reviews, Strategic Planning and Visioning for other companies over 35+ years. Companies should be doing full-scope Performance Reviews. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor.