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…relationships are not only important to our survival, but also to our sense of fulfillment.
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Given its importance to our ability to survive, we humans take this trust thing really seriously.
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…it’s time we paid more attention to lunch, because social scientists are discovering that it’s far more important to our performance than we realize.
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Doing a few important things well is far more likely to propel you out of the slump than a dozen half-assed and half-finished projects are.
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Perhaps the most common – and the most important – forms of rapid cognition are the judgments we make and the impressions we form of other people.
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A host of renowned bosses talk about the importance of thanking people, about the power of this small gesture, and how failure to express appreciation to people who are working their tails off is a sign of disrespect.
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Work is more fragmented now because… e-mails and instant messages mean we are bombarded with important – and more often enticing and trivial – interruptions from anywhere in the world at any time.
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The best bosses learn when they can and should ignore the least important demands from others. But some demands can’t be avoided even though they have little, if any, impact on people or performance.
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When you are doing something that you already know you can accomplish, you’re not learning anything important about whether the endeavor is worth pursuing.
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…developing an exploratory mindset is so important. You have to be making sure that you’ve got a good view of the landscape, that you are taking calls from recruiters, that you’re exploring other functions, and that you’re generally trying out new things…
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