Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Harvard Biz Review
New York, NY, United States
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Toward Fairer Data-Driven Performance Management
Reliable, accurate, and bias-free measures of employees’ job performance are notoriously elusive. And while companies are awash with data about their employees, their ability to translate them into trustworthy markers of performance is at best a work in progress. Research shows that self-ratings and supervisory ratings of job performance overlap by merely 4%. While true meritocracy in… → Read More
How to Move from Strategy to Execution
Three out of every five companies rate their organization as weak on strategy execution. When you dig into the potential barriers to implementation, there is a general lack of understanding of the various factors at play, resulting in the inevitable managerial justifications — “poor leadership,” “inadequate talent,” “lack of process excellence,” etc. This article suggests three key steps to… → Read More
How to Deal with High Pressure Situations at Work
What can you do to improve your ability to deal with pressure, or at least avoid choking under pressure in critical career moments? Here are four science-based recommendations that can help. Know your threshold. Practical tips for building self-awareness include getting feedback from trusted colleagues and friends, evaluating your performance under different degrees of pressure, and paying… → Read More
Hybrid work can backfire if you don’t have strategies for these 4 obstacles
In theory, hybrid work is a wonderful idea. In practice these arrangements also introduce new challenges and complexities for managers and organizations. → Read More
Science explains that anger at work has a bright side. Here’s how to manage it
The point is not to eliminate it from our lives, which would not make us human, but to learn to control it and even display it in strategic ways. → Read More
How to become a better listener, according to science
How well and frequently you listen to others is a better predictor of your leadership potential than your actual intelligence or personality. → Read More
Stop Criticizing Women and Start Questioning Men Instead
Anyone who’s genuinely interested not just in helping women succeed, but also in helping society prosper and evolve — driving social and economic progress for everyone — should stop applying sexist criticisms to women, and start applying useful criticisms to change the behavior of arrogant and overconfident men, since it is men who have long led the system and the status quo. Here are seven… → Read More
How to love your job according to science
Here are the factors you can control, and you should rationally aspire to influence, in order to be more satisfied with your job and career. → Read More
Work, as we knew it, is overrated. Here’s a better way to look at it
Tomas Chamorro Premuzic and Becky Frankiewicz are devoted advocates of work but fear that it may—as historically defined—be overrated. There are some emerging trends that suggest we’re evolving beyond “just a job.” → Read More
How to conduct a ‘stay’ interview with your employees, and why you should
These may not always deter someone from leaving, but they will likely improve managers’ understanding which should help them retain other valuable people. → Read More
The Upside of Feeling Uncertain About Your Career
Turn your professional angst into a competitive advantage. → Read More
This is how to decide if returning to a former employer is the right choice
There may be good reasons to return to your former employer, especially if you can change or upgrade several factors. → Read More
The Essential Components of Digital Transformation
It’s about so much more than your technology. → Read More
Arrogant leaders continue to rise. Here’s how to deal with one
The more deluded people are about their own skills and talents, the easier it is for them to fool others into thinking they are more capable than they are actually. Here’s how to avoid the fallout. → Read More
Arrogant leaders continue to rise. Here’s how to deal with one
The more deluded people are about their own skills and talents, the easier it is for them to fool others into thinking they are more capable than they are actually. Here’s how to avoid the fallout. → Read More
7 Questions to Ask Your New Boss
Set the relationship up for success from the beginning. → Read More
7 Questions to Ask Your New Boss
The most important relationship to get right when starting a new job is the one with your boss. How do you build trust right from the beginning? And how do you get the feedback you need to succeed? The author offers seven questions to try. You will accelerate your career success if you can manage your boss better, which requires you to understand them better, which requires a deliberate strategy. → Read More
Surprising behavioral science you can use to find out if your employer is ethical
If you are eager to determine whether your current or potential employer really lives up to their values, or whether they’re simply virtue-signaling by paying lip service to desirable or in-demand ethical principles, here are four suggestions. → Read More
Surprising behavioral science you can use to find out if your employer is ethical
If you are eager to determine whether your current or potential employer really lives up to their values, or whether they’re simply virtue-signaling by paying lip service to desirable or in-demand ethical principles, here are four suggestions. → Read More
6 things to consider if you’re thinking about changing careers
Behavioral science may help you assess potential opportunities for changes, as well as your own readiness and potential to leverage them. → Read More