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- Why success is more satisfying for some than others
People's job satisfaction is tied whether they have "towards" or "away from" motivations, researchers say. People with "towards" motivation aim to achieve positive results and therefore experience a significant boost in satisfaction when they succeed. Those with "away from" motivation are driven by a fear of something bad happening, like getting fired or losing a client, and therefore experience less satisfaction when they succeed. Forbes
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- Tips for surviving a clueless boss
If you've got an incompetent boss, minimize the damage by taking certain responsibilities upon yourself or by helping the boss learn necessary skills, Dorothy Tannahill-Moran writes. "It seems kind of ludicrous to train your boss, but the ongoing investment will be worth it once they are savvy enough to know what you’re talking about," she writes. Careerealism.com
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- Your follower count doesn't mean much, Twitter co-founder says
Measuring a Twitter account's reach by its number of followers is a crude metric that doesn't tell you all that much about a user's true influence, says Twitter co-founder Ev Williams. It would be "more interesting" to shift to a retweet-focused metric, Williams argues. "The dream metric is how many people saw your tweet," he adds. BuzzFeed
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- How to transition smoothly into a new job
When beginning a new job, make sure you are respectful of the people and environment and don't constantly harp on how things were done at your old job, Jennifer Winter writes. She also advises not to oversocialize so you're not seen as a "Chatty Cathy." TheDailyMuse.com
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- Your boss is probably less stressed than you, study suggests
Senior executives at military, business, political and nonprofit organizations are less stressed than those further down the career ladder, a Harvard University study reports. "Leaders possess a particular psychological resource -- a sense of control -- that may buffer against stress," researchers wrote. Los Angeles Times (tiered subscription model)
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- How to perform CPR on a panda
Veterinarians have developed specialized CPR techniques to use on birds and animals ranging in size from parrots to pandas, including the one who died recently at the zoo in Washington, D.C. Distressed animals can sometimes be resuscitated by breathing into their snouts and performing chest compressions, experts say, but be warned, reviving an elephant by blowing down its trunk might be an impossible challenge. Slate/Explainer blog
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 | I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
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