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360-Degree Feedback Programs To Help Your Company Grow

HR Digest

A manager might be better placed to answer how well an employee listens to instructions and implements feedback, but a junior might have a more in-depth understanding of his delegation skills. Peers are also most sensitive to the performance appraisal aspect that could hurt their colleagues’ salary prospects.

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Projects Are the New Job Interviews

Harvard Business Review

interrogatory genre; the real question will be how well candidates can rise to the "appliject" challenge and help redesign a social media campaign, document a tricky bit of software, edit a Keynote presentation, produce a webinar or peer review a CAD layout for a contract Chinese manufacturer. Exploitive?

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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).

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic. There’s more on the less-than-positive end of things: There is still no peer-reviewed evidence suggesting a correlation between CEO physical fitness and firm value.

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Are Business Schools Creating Higher-Ambition Leaders?

Harvard Business Review

Particularly, I wonder to what extent business schools foster the integral skills these higher-ambition leaders use as a foundation for their success: Business Integration. But students are never asked to examine these tensions and merge them into a coherent leadership approach that is consistent with their ethics and values.