Year Published: 2016 ISBN-13: 978-1595621115 Categories: Management
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First, Break All The Rules:
…the tough love mindset enables a great manager to keep two contradictory thoughts in mind at the same time – the need to maintain high performance standards and the need to care – and still function effectively.
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A person’s unaided response to an open-ended question is powerfully predictive. Trust it, no matter how much you might want to hear something else.
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First, Break All The Rules:
Rapid learning is an important clue to a person’s talent.
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First, Break All The Rules:
A person’s sources of satisfaction are clues to his talent.
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First, Break All The Rules:
…as with any art, time and focus are required to cultivate the art of interviewing for talent.
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First, Break All The Rules:
Great managers dislike the complexity of most company-sponsored performance appraisal schemes.
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First, Break All The Rules:
These four characteristics – simplicity, frequent interaction, focus on the future and self-tracking – are the foundation for a successful performance management routine.
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First, Break All The Rules:
…your immediate manager is a very important partner. If you are cursed with a truly bad one, then you will never see the best of you. No matter how much you enjoy the job itself, get out, fast. You deserve better.
