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Dr. Tasha Eurich on Unleashing Potential through Self-Awareness

HR Digest

So the first lesson is to resist the urge to label something “unmeasurable” just because measuring it is hard. The HR Digest: Reflecting on your career, what aspects of your work do you hope will leave a lasting impact on the field of organizational psychology and leadership?

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When You Have to Carry Out a Decision You Disagree With

Harvard Business Review

You might even be tempted to communicate to your peers and supervisees that you’re not convinced this is the right way to go. Resist that temptation. This is what I did early in my academic career when I received peer review comments on a paper I’d submitted for publication.

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business Review

This is because promotions and salary increases at most business schools are primarily based on professors’ number of peer-reviewed, “A” journal publications (or those appearing in journals with the highest impact factor, or frequency of citation-counts). Where has this stuff been hiding?”

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

So large-scale re-engineering programs, productivity drives, and changes to the incentive system are unlikely to work: they can easily be resisted, ignored or gamed. The team leaders could not offer more money, but they could offer employees opportunities to develop their careers, new technologies to work on, and new colleagues to work with.