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Bring Your Brain to Work
book

Bring Your Brain to Work

by Art Markman
May 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
256 pages
5h 36m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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Producing

You get a job or a promotion on the basis of your potential to benefit the organization you’re working for. But your success in the job means realizing that potential. You actually need to get things done.

In a typical performance evaluation, some of your tasks or goals are laid out, and the evaluator determines whether you’ve met expectations in achieving them. The highest praise you can get is that you’ve exceeded expectations. You’ve gone beyond the potential your employers see in you and tried to make everyone around you more effective as well.

To exceed expectations, you need to take a big-picture view of what success means for you and make continual progress toward your goals. In this chapter, I start by exploring some of the ...

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ISBN: 9781633696129