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Risk-Taking Behavior in Leadership: Finding the Right Balance

Leaders who enjoy testing limits sometimes cross the line. See how too much risk-taking behavior in leadership can jeopardize team trust.

From Asset to Liability: How Perfectionism Becomes Micromanagement

Unchecked perfectionism in the workplace can turn into micromanagement. See how detail-obsessed leaders quietly undermine teams.

Personality and the Secret Life of Organizations

From chimpanzee troops to boardrooms, Robert Hogan, PhD, explains how the search for individual power shapes the secret life of organizations.

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4 Ways Companies Are Failing Their Middle Managers

Companies have spent millions of dollars designing complicated competency models, fruitless training programs, and elaborate perks to select,...

4 Tips to Good Decision-Making

Life is determined by the decisions you make; from the mundane to major life choices. When it comes to decision-making, everyone is different....

[Video] It’s EQ – not IQ – that matters in business.

As a leader in personality assessment, we've been studying this stuff for decades (really, ask us anything). We know cognitive ability is only a...

People in the Middle Do the Actual Work

“You don’t start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it’s the people in the middle who do the actual work in...

Interpreting HPI Subscales

Q&A with Robert Hogan: Engagement and Workaholics

A quick search for the word engagement yields more than 6 million websites, thousands of books, and myriad articles. Yet, a Gallup poll showed that...