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But often the victims are the most competent people, because these are the ones who pose the greatest threat to a fixed-mindset boss.
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
The question of what it takes to succeed in a given profession, to deliver the goods and get the job done,
Kevin Dutton • The Wisdom of Psychopaths
The unlucky, who, early in their lives, endure hardships and tragedies—or the challenge of mental illness—seem to become, not infrequently, our greatest leaders.
Nassir Ghaemi • A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
self-confidence to be a distinguishing factor separating the best managers from the merely average ones.
Chade-Meng Tan • Search Inside Yourself: Increase Productivity, Creativity and Happiness [ePub edition]
Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People for sales, Andy Grove’s High Output Management for CEOs, or Robert Cialdini’s Influence for marketing and personal relationships.
Daniel Gross • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
A good mood can deceive your thinking just as much as a bad one.
Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves • Emotional Intelligence 2.0
Lining Up Emotions in the Right Ways
Morten T. Hansen • Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More
The results were clear: high-IQ individuals in general cooperated more in these games, and IQ mattered the most in games where there were trade-offs between short-run goals and longer-run considerations. The researchers put it this way: in this situation, “intelligence matters substantially more in the long run than other factors and personality tr
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