Bullet Points: Nice Guys Finish Last; Social Recruiting Blossoms; Is Middle Management Going Out of Style?

on August 15, 2011

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  • “[Agreeable] workers earn significantly lower incomes than less agreeable ones,” writes Rachel Emma Silverman in the Wall Street Journal. The gap, which is larger for men, is discussed in a paper presented at this year’s meeting of the Academy of Management.
  • Professor Lynda Gratton’s book The Shift predicts the end of middle management. But the Economist marshals some facts and decides that “there are still reasons to believe that theirs is not a wholly useless profession“: “it could be argued that the demise of the middle manager correlates all too suspiciously with the rise in the cult of the CEO.”
  • Recruiters’ love for social media isn’t going away: it’s just too good at finding those appealing “passive candidates.” [Baltimore Sun]
  • NPR looks at the companies who will guarantee you a certain number of Twitter followers—for a price.
  • The advice is for those in finance, but we think it’s got a much broader application. “Stop doing dumb stuff,” says Steve Player. “Much of this ‘dumb stuff’ masquerades as standard finance processes,” but stopping it is the “only way you can find the time for doing critical things that can add value.”
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