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Should You Promote Potential Or Performance ?

Predicting potential is a high-stake game. The fallout from promoting someone wrongly can be disastrous, both for the individual and the company. So, how do you choose the right person? Some organisations think of potential in terms of immediate performance in the next role, while others see it as a talent, long-term quality that needs…

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Five Ways To Motivate Yourself At Work

Be with go-getters To motivate oneself, Priya Kumar, author and motivational speaker, believes you need to surround yourself with achievers. If you have a few top performers in your friends’ list, you can’t help but be motivated. Kumar has a large friends circle of super achievers, business owners, singers, actors, sportsmen, and she believes that…

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How Not To Hire

With unemployment still so high, it’s amazing to hear that employers are clamoring for talent. The so-called talent shortage is a major topic at human resources and recruiting conferences, and the balance of messages on my answering machine has shifted over the past year from inquiries by job seekers to contacts by HR folks seeking…

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Dont Use Pay as Your Baby Sitter

Have you ever used a babysitter? This is when you have someone else assume your responsibilities while you take a break and focus on something else. The babysitter stands in for you, becomes you during the period of your absence. Someone else does your job. Typically we think of babysitting when there’s actually a dependent…

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