If you improve by 3% but competitors are improving by 5%, you're actually becoming less competitive.
So, Lord Layard's thinking goes, by spending 90 hours a week in the office, you may be improving your own income, but you are also causing other people to feel less satisfied with theirs.
You think that others are responsible for improving your situation.
In fact, feedback is one of the most essential leadership tools you can use to assure people are continually improving their skills, decision-making, attention to detail and overall performance.
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And in the same way that entrepreneurs are always improving and investing in their products, you need to always be improving and investing in yourself.
The overall note that Bernanke sounds is cautious: while jobs numbers are improving, GDP is not growing as fast as you would expect to support such job growth.
Either way you see the market, the improving dividend payouts of U.S. companies are good for investors.
These would be policies that have maximum chance of supporting demand now, while also improving our long-term supply, and reassuring the markets that you are still committed to cutting government spending.
Whether comments you collect are positive or negative, push yourself to think of them as a tool for improving your influence.
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Many of us have the desire to achieve more in 2013, and if you are in a leadership capacity of any kind, even as an individual contributor, there are few things that you control that will help you to achieve those goals as much as improving your leadership ability.
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