motivation
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12 Ways to Actually Achieve the Goals You Set for Yourself
It’s that time of year to muse on what you hope to accomplish over the next 12 months. The best advice when making resolutions is to set goals that are “SMART” – specific, measurable, achievable, relevant (to you) and time-bound. Once you’ve set your goals, what can help you achieve them? Based on our research,…
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How Does Job Insecurity Impact Staff Performance?
Former General Electric chief executive Jack Welch famously promoted the “20-70-10” system to increase labour productivity. Managers were asked to rank employees on a bell curve; the top 20% received rewards, while the bottom 10% were fired. Yahoo, Amazon and IBM, among many others, later adopted this performance review approach, termed stack ranking, forced ranking…
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You Can Control Yourself Better
Sometimes, we make colossally bad decisions that mess up our lives for a period of time. We stay too long in the wrong job or a toxic relationship. We hang out with the wrong people, or make a risky investment that doesn’t pan out. There are times when our mistakes and failures can be traced…
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Why You Need Instant Gratification, According to Science
Many of us have goals we want to achieve, whether it’s to eat healthier, work out more, read more books, or other things that we feel we should be doing. Usually, when we think about working toward our goals, we imagine making hard sacrifices along the way — waking up early to go to the…