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8 Steps to High Performance
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8 Steps to High Performance

by Marc Effron
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 15m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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NOTES

Preface

1. A meta-analysis reviews many different studies that relate to a similar topic. The goal is to see if the conclusion found in each study is relatively similar to the conclusions found in the others. If all of the studies reach a similar conclusion, there’s strong proof that the finding is scientifically true.

Introduction

1. Around 25% is intelligence. Frank L. Schmidt and John Hunter, “General Mental Ability in the World of Work: Occupational Attainment and Job Performance,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 86, no. 1 (2004): 162. Approximately 10%–20% are personality factors. Murray R. Barrick, Michael K. Mount, and Timothy A. Judge, “Personality and Performance at the Beginning of the New Millennium: What Do ...

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ISBN: 9781633693982