With all the restructuring, lay offs, asking people to do more with less, and working harder every day for less, it really can be debilitating when an opportunity comes along and you don’t get promoted. It makes you wonder. What is wrong with me? Aren’t I doing a good job? Can I do something different [...]
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My sister was an executive vice president in banking. She decided to retire when she saw the sub-prime market starting to go crazy and realized that the way she believed a book of mortgages should be developed and managed differed substantially from others in the industry. Too bad she didn’t stick it out. While my sister [...]
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When people find themselves in a changing environment, their primary concern is “what will happen to me either at home or in my job at work?” High performers, when they are feeling unsure, generally take action to seek a better position in an environment which they perceive as more stable. Lower performers may be more fatalistic in [...]
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