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The Truth About Being a Successful Manager: The Essential Truths in 20 Minutes
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The Truth About Being a Successful Manager: The Essential Truths in 20 Minutes

by Dr. Stephen P. Robbins
September 2007
Beginner
70 pages
55m
English
Pearson
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TRUTH 7 Hire people who fit your culture: my “good employee” is your stinker!

Many a manager has hired a new employee based largely on her skills and then lived to regret it. While skill competence is certainly an important ingredient in the making of a “good employee,” never underestimate the role that an organization’s culture plays in an employee’s success or failure.

Employee performance typically has a large subjective component. Bosses and colleagues have to make interpretations: Is Dave a team player? Is Tina taking unnecessary risks? Is Laura too competitive? And whether those interpretations are positive or negative depend to a ...

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