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Problem Your bosses tolerate the workplace jerk because his jerkiness is essential to his creativity. Reality Being a jerk doesn’t make that guy any more creative any anyone else—it just allows him to push his ideas more. Method A study published in the Journal of Business and Pyschology had 201 … Read More
Problem You’ve been told that your team is only as good as it’s weakest link. Reality Actually, the most important person on your team and the biggest factor in its success is its best performer (or, ‘extra-miler’), according to a study in the Journal of Applied Psychology. Method Researchers looked … Read More
Problem Does your work suck, for a variety of reasons? Do you constantly feel the need to point out said reasons? And do you constantly feel exhausted? Solution Well, stop, because a study publish in the Journal of Applied Psychology has found that constant complaining and griping about work is … Read More
The world is very roughly divided into two types of people: morning people (larks), and evening people (owls). Larks jump out of bed, raring to go, and then fizz out sometime in the afternoon, whereas owls are a bit foggy for a few hours, then perk up later in the … Read More
Resumes are often your first impression to a job recruiter, and first impressions are often wrong. Here’s the trouble, though: job recruiters think that they’re awesome at judging personalities based on resumes. They aren’t. Researchers publishing in the Journal of Business and Psychology have found that it’s extremely difficult to … Read More
