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Posted by whoyg2967 on Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:16:48 PM
wholesale140Barry Staw, a psychologist at the University of California at Berkeley, has offered an elegant remedy to wholesale coral jewelry this ubiquitous quagmire: Have one individual make the initial investment decision, and have a different individual make the subsequent reinvestment decision. This partitioning of decision makers removes the initial individual's self-serving need to justify and defend previous investments, slackening the motivation to reinvest in failing courses of action.

Despite the simplicity of that remedy, our research, which will appear in an upcoming issue of Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, documents a systematic and destructive barrier: When new decision makers share a psychological connection with old decision makers, they tend to invest further in the failing programs of wholesale pearl jewelry their predecessors, even to their own financial detriment. We have labeled this phenomenon "vicarious entrapment." The problem is that insiders are all but certain to share some connections with the leaders they replace. Escaping the clutches of past failure, we argue, depends not just on a physical separation, but also on a psychological separation of the two decision makers. In other words, insiders may be precisely the wrong people to fill a failed leader's shoes.

Our research looked at three separate organizational contexts: financial investments, personnel decisions and auctions. In each study, we constructed a situation in which a prior decision maker's choices had clearly gone awry. Our participants, acting as new, second decision makers, faced a choice between dedicating further resources to the failing course of action and dedicating the shell pearl jewelry resources elsewhere. Their choice, we repeatedly found, depended on whether they shared a psychological connection with the prior decision maker.
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Compared with the connections

Posted by whoyg2967 on Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:16:31 PM
Compared with the connections between lifelong colleagues like GM's Wagoner and Henderson, the pearl jewelry wholesale connections in our studies were incredibly subtle. In one of our studies, new decision makers were simply told that they shared the same birthday month and school year as the previous decision maker. In other studies, we asked participants to try to empathize with their departed colleague. We compared these participants against those without a psychological connection, i.e., those with a different birthday, or baseline decision makers not asked to feel empathy. Even under these, the subtlest of conditions, psychologically connected decision makers made much greater investments in an old decision maker's losing decisions.
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In one study, the participants learned that the prior decision maker had dug himself into an unwinnable auction. After taking over for this person, the only way participants could salvage the auction and prevent the bleeding of their own compensation was to stop bidding immediately. Those who ostensibly shared the same birthday lost a remarkable 285% more of their own money in the auction than those with a different birthday. In another study, the freshwater perl jewelry prior decision maker had invested research-and-development funds in one of two divisions, which had subsequently performed worse than the other. Participants asked to empathize with the original decision maker dedicated $1.42 million, or 37%, more to the underperforming division than did baseline participants. Surprisingly, these effects held even when our participants faced a direct financial cost to themselves, and even among economics majors specifically trained in the irrationality of honoring sunk costs.

Our research offers a new twist in the debate about how to turn around failing enterprises, and it does so by building on decades of psychological evidence that suggests humans are social beings driven to find connections to others. Psychologists have long shown that people consistently seek out and freshwater pearl strand share natural psychological connections, and once such connections form, people are more likely to cooperate and favor one another financially. Our research demonstrates that psychologically connected individuals are also more likely to perpetuate each other's failures, vicariously flushing away their own money and time.
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have been better-served

Posted by whoyg2967 on Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:16:14 PM
For Fritz Henderson, who knew Rick Wagoner well and spent the early part of 2009 working around the clock with him to  freshwater pearl bracelet solve the company's problems, our research suggests that their tight connection alone could undermine Henderson's independence. It also implies that GM might have been better-served following Ford Motor Company's ( F - news - people ) lead: Ford appointed an outsider, Alan Mulally, from Boeing ( BA - news - people ), to turn around the company, with comparative success. Finally, it suggests that some members of the Obama administration may have understood this issue, at least intuitively, when they appointed a true outsider, former AT&T ( T - news - people ) executive Ed Whitacre, to chair GM's new board.

In general, our research implies that business organizations trying to shed failed legacies might want to wish pearl gift set follow Ford's example. Organizations hoping to escape past failures need to balance their preference for the familiarity and knowledge that an insider affords against the entrapment an insider may suffer. Although outsiders undoubtedly take longer to understand a problem, our research suggests that once they do, their psychological independence can limit their tendency to throw good money after bad.

Adam Galinsky is the Morris and Alice Kaplan Professor of Ethics and Decision in Management at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. Brian Gunia is a doctoral candidate at freshwater pearl bracelet Kellogg. Niro Sivanathan is an assistant professor of organizational behavior at London Business School.
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The current job market reminds

Posted by whoyg2967 on Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:15:51 PM
The current job market reminds me of a story about a church committee assigned to hire a new pastor. Numerous well-qualified candidates applied, but none seemed to meet the inflatable bouncer committee's requirements. Frustrated with this perfectionism, one of the committee's members submitted an anonymous résumé with the accomplishments of a certain priest who had lived and preached in Galilee 2,000 years before. The committee reviewed the résumé and rejected it. Even Jesus Christ wasn't good enough.

According to the Department of Labor, unemployment rose to 9.8% in September, and that doesn't include people who have given up looking. Employers with job openings have plenty of well-qualified job candidates to choose from, and like a beauty queen choosing from an abundance of suitors, they're getting awfully picky. In fact, they too seem to be looking for, and expecting, perfection. I say this both from personal experience and from hearing many anecdotal accounts from freshwater pearl earrings colleagues seeking employment. The pursuit of perfection is a powerful trend in the present job market, and its riptides are sweeping suitable job candidates off their feet and out to sea.

In my own experience, I was recently interviewed for a position as a vice president at one of the major social networks (I can't mention it by name, but it rhymes with PieFace). A week later, the human resources person who interviewed me got back to me to say I was perfect for the job but lacked just one qualification. Therefore I was no longer being considered.

Really? I lacked just one qualification, and I'm out of the running?

I wonder if it ever occurred to this H.R. person that if I matched all but one of their checkbox requirements, I was probably more than capable of getting up to speed on the freshwater pearl bracelet one I lacked. Alas, the thought of hiring a less than perfect candidate who could grow into the position was not what this H.R. person had in mind, nor what's currently fashionable in today's job market. Her company wanted perfection. But nobody's perfect. That's why pencils have erasers.
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Some HR people are not very

Posted by whoyg2967 on Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:15:33 PM
Some HR people are not very intelligent but most do not care if their company hires the best in a reasonable time. HR procedures do not do a good job in matching the sterling silver jewelry offeror with the company. Curr
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This got me wondering: Have employers thought through the ramifications of seeking perfection, even in a job market where they feel they can afford to be choosy?

Hiring job candidates who are not 100% perfectly qualified for a position can actually make better sense long term. For starters, the employer can get someone more grateful for the challenge and opportunity for growth, and thus more inclined to be loyal to freshwater perl jewelry the job, and that person is likely to cost less than a perfect candidate, too. Furthermore in my own experience hiring people I found that it was generally preferable to choose an imperfectly qualified candidate with a good attitude and a willingness to learn, rather than one with sterling credentials and a lousy attitude. Over the long term, I was never disappointed by having chosen the former over the latter.

Employers should also think about this: If you find that perfect candidate who meets every one of your criteria, aren't you at risk that he or she will be bored from day one by a job that he or she has already mastered? That person could be taking your job offer just to bide their time short-term until a more challenging position with greater opportunity for growth comes around. Moreover, perfectly qualified candidates aren't always the ones best suited for the job. Experts built the freshwater pearl ring Titanic. Amateurs built the Ark.

Finally, employers, I urge you to keep in mind what a Canadian politician named Stanley J. Randall once said: "The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form." So consider taking a chance on those less than perfect job candidates. Otherwise, just like that church committee, you could be overlooking a real superstar.
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