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"Time Management Is Not About Tasks"

This post was written by Penelope Trunk: "...I was really struck by the book, Abolishing the Performance Review, by Samuel Culbert, professor at the UCLA school of business. Culbert says that complimenting someone you manage does not produce better work from them. Rather, it's sort of a shortcut to good management that doesn't work. Like adding quality in front of time for parenting.

This makes sense to me. Because people compliment you only on stuff they think you don't know. Like my grandma telling me I'm special.

And hearing compliments about stuff I do know--that I'm a good writer, for instance--does not help me. Helpful is someone telling me how to be a better writer still. For instance, an editor told me that I needed to use more research when I used only stories of my life with no supporting research. (And, look, here is research to show that people like research.)

So the constructive advice helps me do better..."

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Source: Brazen Careerist, 17 September 2010. © 2009 Penelope Trunk, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on September 20, 2010 (boomark / email).