You were hired for one thing and got more than you bargained for. The problem is that the extra never made it onto your company’s org chart. There’s a version of this that plays out…
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The Potemkin Village Problem in Hiring
In 1787, Grigory Potemkin erected phony portable settlements along the banks of the Dnieper River to impress the Russian Empress Catherine the Great and her foreign guests as she toured the lands he governed. The…
Self-Awareness Is Not a Soft Skill
Research from the National Institutes of Health suggests only 10 to 15 percent of people are genuinely self-aware. Tasha Eurich, an organizational psychologist who has studied self-awareness extensively, puts the number even lower — her…