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For instance, if 80 percent of your team submits time sheets on time, make sure the other 20 percent knows the group norm. Those individuals almost certainly will correct themselves. But if only 10 percent of your team submits time sheets on time, publicizing those results will hurt, not help.

It takes work to communicate accurately and it takes work to expose and resolve conflicting hopes and beliefs.

found that people were more likely to fulfill their goals if they had made explicit “implementation intentions.”

But that’s different from assuming it as an entitlement.

But often the victims are the most competent people, because these are the ones who pose the greatest threat to a fixed-mindset boss.

Maling Sense of People [Décoder les gens] de Sam Barondes a eu un fort impact sur ma façon de penser et j’offre parfois un exemplaire de ce livre à un candidat en cours d’embauche.

This teacher was kind and well-intentioned, but I wonder whether students like the young safety officer would be better off if we appreciated that not everyone aspires to be a leader in the conventional sense of the word—that some people wish to fit harmoniously into the group, and others to be independent of it. Often the most highly creative peop

former chess prodigy Josh Waitzkin

These managers are more committed to their employees’ development, and to their own.